Programme Note 'Against That Time... Against My Love' is a song cycle comprising three related settings of Shakespeare sonnets (numbers 49, 63 and 126). The sonnets are drawn from a collection of 154 of William Shakespeare's poems on love, beauty and mortality, first published together in 1609.

The piece was commissioned by Lake District Summer Music 2014.

Audio https://soundcloud.com/ed-hughes-4/against-that-timeagainst-my-love