Quilter: Ye banks and braes

Britten:

Down by the Salley Gardens

Oliver Cromwell

Elwyn-Edwards:

The Cloths of Heaven

Gurney:

Sleep

Head, M:

Money O!

Ireland:

When lights go rolling around the sky

Parry:

Love is a bable, Op. 152 No. 3

Quilter:

Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6

Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson)

Ye Banks and Braes

Weep ye no more, sad fountains

Somervell:

A Shropshire Lad

Vaughan Williams:

Linden Lea

Silent Noon

Warlock:

Captain Stratton's Fancy

Britten:

The foggy, foggy dew

The Trees They Grow So High

Down by the Salley Gardens

Little Sir William

Sweet Polly Oliver

O Waly, Waly

Grainger:

Died for Love

Hard-Hearted Barb'ra (H)Ellen

British Waterside

Six Dukes Went a-Fishin'

Hughes, H:

Lovely Mollie

The Old Turf Fire

She moved through the fair

The Star of County Down

Moeran:

The Isle of Cloy

The Shooting of his Dear

The Pressgang

Moore, G:

Blow the wind southerly

Quilter:

Drink to me only

The Jolly Miller

Ye banks and braes

Charlie is my darling

Richards, G:

I love my Love

Sweet Nightingale

Quilter:

It was a lover and his lass

Take, O take those lips away

O mistress mine

How should I your true love know

Orpheus with his lute

Hark! Hark! The lark

Ca' the yowes to the knows

Charlie is my darling

Ye banks and braes

I Arise from Dreams of Thee, Op. 29

Music, when soft voices die, Op. 25 No. 5 (Shelley)

Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley)

Spring is at the door

Passing dreams

Autumn Evening, Op. 14 No. 1 (Arthur Maquarie)

Go, lovely Rose, Op. 24 No. 3 (Edmund Wailer)

A last year's Rose, Op. 14 No. 3 (William Henley)

Amaryllis at the fountain

I dare not ask a kiss

Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson)

To Julia, Op. 8

Love calls through the summer night

An old carol

Three Pastoral Songs, Op. 22

Bach, J S:

St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (excerpts)

ed. Elgar and Atkins; transl. Troutbeck and Johnson

Elsie Suddaby (soprano), Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Eric Greene (tenor), William Parsons (baritone), Osborne Peasgood (organ), Thornton Lofthouse (harpsichord)

The Bach Choir, The Jacques Orchestra, Reginald Jacques

Cantata BWV67 'Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ'

Ena Mitchell (soprano), William Herbert (tenor), William Parsons (bass), Thornton Lofthouse (harpsichord continuo), Wilfred Parry (piano)

The Jacques Orchestra, The Cantata Singers, Reginald Jacques

Ascension Oratorio 'Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen', BWV11

Ena Mitchell (soprano), William Herbert (tenor), William Parsons (bass), Thornton Lofthouse (harpsichord continuo), Wilfred Parry (piano)

The Jacques Orchestra, The Cantata Singers, Reginald Jacques

Erbarm' dich mein, o Herre gott, BWV305

sung in English as 'Have mercy, Lord'

David McCallum (violin)

National Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent

Vergiss mein nicht, BWV505

Millicent Silver (harpsichord)

Ach, dass nicht die letze Stunde BWV439

Millicent Silver (harpsichord)

Bist du bei mir, BWV508

John Newmark (piano)

Mass in B minor, BWV232: Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris

Michael Dobson (oboe d’amore)

St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Buss und Reu

sung in English as 'Grief for sin'

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

St John Passion, BWV245: Es ist vollbracht

sung in English as 'All is fulfilled'

Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Mass in B minor, BWV232: Agnus Dei

Basil Lam (harpsichord continuo)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Brahms:

Sapphische Ode, Op. 94 No. 4

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Botschaft, Op. 47 No. 1

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121

orch. Sargent; transl. England

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53

London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir (men’s voices), Clemens Krauss

Two songs for contralto with viola obbligato, Op. 91

Phyllis Spurr (piano), Max Gilbert (viola)

Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52

Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Julius Patzak (tenor), Horst Günter (bass-baritone) (Clifford Curzon, Hans Gál piano duet)

Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer, Op. 105 No. 2

Bruno Walter (piano)

Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht, Op. 96 No. 1

Bruno Walter (piano)

Botschaft, Op. 47 No. 1

Bruno Walter (piano)

Von ewiger Liebe, Op. 43 No. 1

Bruno Walter (piano)

Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 65

Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Julius Patzak (tenor), Horst Günter (bass-baritone), Clifford Curzon, Hans Gál (piano duet)

Bridge:

Go Not, Happy Day

Frederick Stone (piano)

Britten:

Spring Symphony, Op. 44

Jo Vincent (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor)

Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Netherlands Radio Choir, The Boys’ Choir of St Willibrorduskerk, Rotterdam, Eduard van Beinum

O Waly, Waly

Frederick Stone (piano)

Come ye not from Newcastle?

Frederick Stone (piano)

O Waly, Waly

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Chausson:

Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Op. 19

Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

Ferguson, H:

Discovery, Op. 13

Ernest Lush (piano)

Gluck:

Orfeo ed Euridice -abridged version

Kathleen Ferrier (Orfeo), Ann Ayars (Euridice), Zoë Vlachopoulos (Amor)

Southern Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Fritz Stiedry

What is life? (Orfeo ed Euridice)

London Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent

Gruber, F:

Silent Night

The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Boyd Neel

Handel:

Art thou troubled? (from Rodelinda)

London Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent

Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù (from Serse)

London Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent

Come alla tortorella langue (from Atalanta)

sung in English as 'Like as the love-lorn turtle'

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Cangio d'aspetto (from Admeto)

sung in English as 'How changed the vision'

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Samson: Return, O God of hosts

Basil Lam (harpsichord continuo)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Messiah: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion

Basil Lam (harpsichord continuo)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Judas Maccabaeus: Father of Heaven

Basil Lam (harpsichord continuo)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Messiah: He was despised

Basil Lam (harpsichord continuo)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Jensen, A:

Altar

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Mahler:

Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'

Jo Vincent (soprano)

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam Tonkunst Choir, Otto Klemperer

Kindertotenlieder

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Das Lied von der Erde

Julius Patzak (tenor)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter

Ich atmet' einen linden Duft (Rückert-Lieder)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter

Um Mitternacht (Rückert-Lieder)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter

Mendelssohn:

Elijah: Woe unto them

The Boyd Neel Orchestra, Boyd Neel

Elijah: O rest in the Lord

The Boyd Neel Orchestra, Boyd Neel

Parry:

Love is a bable, Op. 152 No. 3

Frederick Stone (piano)

Pergolesi:

Stabat Mater

Joan Taylor (soprano)

Nottingham Oriana Choir, The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Roy Henderson

Purcell:

From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370

arr. Britten

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Hark! The Echoing Air (from The Fairy Queen, Z629)

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Quilter:

Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson)

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

The Fair House of Joy

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

To Daisies, Op. 8 No. 3

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Over the Mountains

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Ye banks and braes

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Drink to me only

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Rubbra:

Psalms (3), Op. 81

Ernest Lush (piano)

Schubert:

Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Die junge Nonne, D828

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

An die Musik D547

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Der Musensohn, D764 (Goethe)

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Ganymed, D544 (Goethe)

Benjamin Britten (piano)

Du liebst mich nicht D756 (Platen)

Benjamin Britten (piano)

Lachen und Weinen, D777

Benjamin Britten (piano)

Die junge Nonne, D828

Bruno Walter (piano)

Rosamunde, D797: Romance 'Der Vollmond Strahlt auf Bergeshöh'n'

Bruno Walter (piano)

Du liebst mich nicht D756 (Platen)

Bruno Walter (piano)

Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531

Bruno Walter (piano)

Suleika I, D720

Bruno Walter (piano)

Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)

Bruno Walter (piano)

Schumann:

Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42

John Newmark (piano)

Volksliedchen, Op. 51 No. 2

John Newmark (piano)

Widmung, Op. 25 No. 1

John Newmark (piano)

Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42

Bruno Walter (piano)

Stanford:

The Fairy Lough Op. 77 No. 2, from An Irish Idyll in Six Miniatures (1901)

Frederick Stone (piano)

A soft day

Frederick Stone (piano)

trad.:

Kitty my love

arr. Hughes

Frederick Stone (piano)

Ma bonny lad

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

The Keel Row

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Blow the Wind Southerly

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

I have a bonnet trimmed with blue

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

My boy Willie

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

I know where I'm going

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

The fidgety bairn

John Newmark (piano)

I will walk with my love

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Ca' the yowes

John Newmark (piano)

Willow, willow

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

The stuttering lovers

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Have you seen but the whyte lillie grow

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Down by the Salley Gardens

arr. Hughes

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

The lover's curse

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Vaughan Williams:

Silent Noon

Frederick Stone (piano)

Wade:

O come, all ye faithful

The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Boyd Neel

Warlock:

Sleep

Frederick Stone (piano)

Pretty Ring Time

Frederick Stone (piano)

Wolf, H:

Verborgenheit (No. 12 from Mörike-Lieder)

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Der Gärtner (No. 17 from Mörike-Lieder)

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Auf ein altes Bild (No. 23 from Mörike-Lieder)

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Auf einer Wanderung (No. 15 from Mörike-Lieder)

Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Wordsworth:

Songs (3), Op. 5

Ernest Lush (piano)