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Box Set Album · 2012

The Very Best Of English Song

Britten · Byrd · Delius · Elgar · Parry · Purcell · Stanford · Vaughan Williams · Walton - Sir Thomas Allen · Dame Janet Baker · Ian Bostridge · Alfred Deller · Emma Kirkby · Anthony Rolfe Johnson · Robert Tear

EMI Classics 50999 6 80513 2 7 · 2012 · UK

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Tracklist

60 tracks
  1. 1-1
    Linden Lea—A Dorset Song
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    2:54
  2. 1-2
    The Salley Gardens
    John Ireland
    2:13
  3. 1-3
    O Mistress Mine (English Lyrics Set II No. 1)
    Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
    1:31
  4. 1-4
    Love’s Philosophy Op.3 No.1
    Roger Quilter
    1:28
  5. 1-5
    Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal Op.3 No.2
    Roger Quilter
    2:13
  6. 1-6
    Bredon Hill
    Graham Peel
    3:40
  7. 1-7
    Loveliest Of Trees (A Shropshire Lad No.1)
    George Butterworth
    2:51
  8. 1-8
    Down By The Salley Gardens
    Ivor Gurney
    2:35
  9. 1-9
    Black Stitchel
    Ivor Gurney
    2:10
  10. 1-10
    My Own Country
    Peter Warlock
    2:34
  11. 1-11
    Passing By
    Peter Warlock
    2:30
  12. 1-12
    Pretty Ring Time
    Peter Warlock
    1:11
  13. 1-13
    The Lamb (Ten Blake Songs No.5)
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    2:17
  14. 1-14
    The Shepherd (Ten Blake Songs No.6)
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    0:50
  15. 1-15
    Silent Noon (The House of Life No.2)
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    4:18
  16. 1-16
    Come Away, Death Op.6 No.1
    Roger Quilter
    3:01
  17. 1-17
    Since We Loved (Oh Fair To See No.7)
    Gerald Finzi
    1:12
  18. 1-18
    Rollicum-rorum (Earth And Air And Rain No.6)
    Gerald Finzi
    2:02
  19. 1-19
    Sea Fever
    John Ireland
    2:11
  20. 1-20
    Trade Winds (Salt-Water Ballads No.2)
    Frederick Keel
    2:19
  21. 1-21
    Drake’s Drum (Songs Of The Sea No.1)
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    2:43
  22. 1-22
    The Old Superb (Songs Of The Sea No.5)
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    3:24
  23. 1-23
    Kashmiri Song (Four Indian Love-Lyrics No.3)
    Amy Woodforde-Finden
    2:56
  24. 1-24
    Bless This House
    May Brahe
    3:18
  25. 1-25
    Balulalow
    Peter Warlock
    1:46
  26. 1-26
    Tom Bowling
    Charles Dibdin
    4:15
  27. 1-27
    Home! Sweet Home!
    Henry Bishop
    3:34
  28. 1-28
    Come Into The Garden, Maud
    Michael William Balfe
    4:06
  29. 1-29
    The Foggy, Foggy Dew
    Benjamin Britten
    2:24
  30. 1-30
    The Plough Boy
    Benjamin Britten
    1:45
  31. 2-1
    Greensleeves
    Traditional
    2:13
  32. 2-2
    It Was A Lover And His Lass
    Thomas Morley
    3:09
  33. 2-3
    O Mistress Mine
    Thomas Morley
    1:39
  34. 2-4
    The Willow Song
    Anon. 17th Century
    4:16
  35. 2-5
    Where The Bee Sucks
    Robert Johnson
    1:14
  36. 2-6
    Full Fathom Five
    Robert Johnson
    2:06
  37. 2-7
    Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby
    William Byrd
    5:59
  38. 2-8
    Elegy On The Death Of Thomas Tallis: Ye Sacred Muses
    William Byrd
    4:05
  39. 2-9
    Sorrow, Stay! (Second Book Of Songs)
    John Dowland
    3:05
  40. 2-10
    Can She Excuse My Wrongs? (First Book Of Songs)
    John Dowland
    2:32
  41. 2-11
    Awake, Sweet Love (First Book Of Songs)
    John Dowland
    2:48
  42. 2-12
    Woeful Heart (Second Book Of Songs)
    John Dowland
    2:50
  43. 2-13
    Shall I Sue? (Second Book Of Songs)
    John Dowland
    2:36
  44. 2-14
    Me, Me And None But Me (Third And Last Book Of Songs)
    John Dowland
    2:11
  45. 2-15
    Flow, My Tears (Second Book Of Songs)
    John Dowland
    3:49
  46. 2-16
    Fairest Isle
    Henry Purcell
    2:37
  47. 2-17
    Music For A While
    Henry Purcell
    3:55
  48. 2-18
    I Attempt From Love’s Sickness
    Henry Purcell
    2:02
  49. 2-19
    If Music Be The Food Of Love Z379 No.1
    Henry Purcell
    2:05
  50. 2-20
    An Evening Hymn: Now That The Sun Hath Veiled His Light Z193
    Henry Purcell
    5:19
  51. 2-21
    Yarmouth Fair
    Peter Warlock
    1:40
  52. 2-22
    The Smuggler’s Song
    Charles G. Mortimer
    3:34
  53. 2-23
    Down Below
    Sydney Carter
    2:42
  54. 2-24
    A Transport Of Delight
    Donald Swann
    2:35
  55. 2-25
    The Wart Hog
    Donald Swann
    3:44
  56. 2-26
    The Hippopotamus Song (Live At The Fortune Theatre, London, 2 May 1959)
    Donald Swann
    4:04
  57. 3-23
    The Bonny Earl O’Morray (Scottish Tune)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:40
  58. 3-24
    Oliver Cromwell (Nursery Rhyme From Suffolk)
    Benjamin Britten
    0:47
  59. 5-25
    In Summertime On Bredon
    Graham Peel
    3:09
  60. 5-26
    Devonshire Cream And Cider
    Wilfrid Sanderson
    3:55
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