'You and Me' comprises two expressive love songs, each exploring a different side of love. 'Brightness' is a rapturous hymn to a beloved, its gentle syncopations and flexible rhythms building to a passionate intensity before the piece ends with a final, wistful refrain. 'The Good Side of Me', with text by Elizabeth Jennings, employs colourful harmonies to tell of a more complex, uncertain love, before reaching an affirmative, peaceful end. 'Love' is is a quiet, expressive piece setting Tennyson's poem very simply. It has an easy solo line for soprano and tenor. Memorable lilting melodies are woven together in a texture of free counterpoint in this lush setting of 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal' that captures the quiet ecstasy of Tennyson's famous love poem. Rhythmically challenging but very rewarding for the singer, this would make an ideal opener or closer for a program of love songs.