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The Art of English Song CD 1 Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872–1958) Silent noon (Rossetti) [3:36] Linden Lea (Barnes) [2:17] Thomas Frederick DUNHILL (1877–1946) The cloths of heaven (Yeats) [2:07] ![]() Henry PURCELL (1659–1695) Fairest isle (from King Arthur) (Dryden) [2:31] Barbara Bonney (soprano) The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood John DOWLAND (1563–1626) If my complaints could passions move (from First Booke of Songs) [4:38] Barbara Bonney (soprano), Jacob Heringman (lute) John WILBYE (1574–1638) Of joys and pleasing pains (from First Set of English Madrigals) [2:24] Orlando GIBBONS (1583–1625) Dainty fine bird (from Madrigals and Motets 1612) [1:44] The Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley John DOWLAND In darkness let me dwell [4:16] Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor), Edin Karamazov (lute) Far from triumphing court [5:07] Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) Edin Karamazov (lute), Christophe Coin (bass viol) Ivor GURNEY (1890–1937) Sleep (from Five Elizabethan Songs) (Fletcher) [3:08] Peter WARLOCK (1894–1930) Captain Stratton’s fancy (Masefield) [1:54] Haydn WOOD (1882–1959) A brown bird singing (Barrie) [2:45] James MOLLOY (1839–1909) Love’s old sweet song (Bingham) [4:46] Felicity Palmer (soprano), John Constable (piano) Percy GRAINGER (1882–1961) The sprig of thyme [2:33] The pretty maid milkin’ her cow [1:17] Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (piano) Trad. (arr. Britten) Early one morning [2:57] The foggy foggy dew [2:27] Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano) George BUTTERWORTH (1885–1916) Loveliest of trees (from 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Housman) [2:40] Bredon Hill (from Bredon Hill and Other Songs) [4:44] John IRELAND (1879–1962) I must go down to the seas again (Masefield) [2:20] Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Thomas CAMPION (1567–1620) Come let us sound [3:02] Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute) Thomas MORLEY (1557–1602) It was a lover and his lass [2:24] Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano) Thomas ARNE (1710–1778) The soldier tir’d (from Artaxerxes) [4:04} George Frideric HANDEL (1685–1759) Let the bright seraphim (from Samson) [5:52] Joan Sutherland (soprano), Harry Dilley (trumpet) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli CD 2 Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The vagabond (from Songs of Travel) (Stevenson) [3:14] Gerald FINZI (1901–1956) O mistress mine (from Let us garlands bring) (Shakespeare) [2:11] Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Henry PURCELL (arr. Britten) The Blessed Virgin’s expostulation [8:29] Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano) trad. (arr. Leon) I am a poor wayfaring stranger [4:45]º Trad. The salley gardens (Yeats) [2:15] Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute)º Stacey Shames (harp), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Henry PURCELL If music be the food of love (Heveningham) [2:07] Barbara Bonney (soprano) The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood Anon. (arr. Britten) The Lincolnshire poacher [2:03] Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano) Orlando GIBBONS (1583–1625) The silver swan (from Madrigals and Motets 1612) [1:17] The Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley Anon. (arr. Britten) The plough boy [2:04] Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano) Henry ECCLES (1675?–1735?) I burn, my brain consumes to ashes [3:44]º Henry PURCELL I’ll sail upon the dog-star (D’Urfey) [1:33] Catherine Bott (soprano), David Roblou (harpsichord) Paula Chateauneuf (lute), Anthony Pleeth (cello)º trad. (arr. Leon) My love is like a red, red rose (Burns) [3:50] I will give my love an apple [2:35] Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute( Stacey Shames (harp), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra George Frideric HANDEL O had I Jubal’s lyre (from Joshua) [2:33] Janet Baker (mezzo), English Chamber Orchestra/Raymond Leppard Roger QUILTER (1877–1953) O mistress mine (from Three Shakespeare Songs) (Shakespeare) [1:38] Now sleeps the crimson petal (from Three Songs) (Tennyson) [2:18] Hubert PARRY (1848–1918) Love is a bable (trad.) [1:41] Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Anon. (arr. Roberton) The fidgety bairn [2:49] Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), John Newmark (piano) Anon. (arr. Hughes) The stuttering lovers [1:42] Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr (piano) Anon. (arr. Whittaker) Blow the wind southerly [2:22] Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) Hubert PARRY Blow, blow, thou winter wind (Shakespeare) [1:58] Robert Tear (tenor), Philip Ledger (piano) Henry PURCELL Music for a while (from Oedipus) (Dryden, Lee) [2:51] Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Jory Vinikour (harpsichord) Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS In dreams (from Songs of Travel) (Stevenson) [2:57] George BUTTERWORTH On the idle hill of summer (from Bredon Hill and Other Songs) (Housman) [3:08] Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Trad. (arr. Leon) I loved a lass [3:37] Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute) Stacey Shames (harp), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Henry PURCELL Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas) (Tate) [4:46] Barbara Bonney (soprano) The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood rec. 1949–2004 ![]() |
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