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"In A Persian Garden" and "Songs Of The River" are both song cycles written for solo vocal quartet and piano. Liza Lehmann's "In A Persian Garden" is a setting of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and Thomas Dunhill's "Songs Of The River" is a five song group setting of poetry by Stevenson, Tennyson, Keats, MacDonald and Kingsley. Both cycles by these British composers are beautifully scored in the opulent and stylistic vocal tradition of the late nineteenth century.