 On 11 January 1895 Borwick and Plunket Greene gave the first complete performance of Schumann's "Dichterliebe" ever heard in England, at St James' Hall.Borwick always accompanied without sheet music.Plunket Greene was the original performer of many of Arthur Somervell's songs (and those of Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford), and Borwick and the composer gave the first performance of Somervell's "Variations on an original theme in E minor", for two pianos.