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Berkeley, L: | How Love Came In Benjamin Britten (piano) | Bridge: | Love went a-riding Benjamin Britten (piano) | Britten: | The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35 Benjamin Britten (piano) The Plough Boy Benjamin Britten (piano) | Campion: | Shall I come, sweet love, to thee? Julian Bream (guitar) | Copland: | Long Time Ago Benjamin Britten (piano) Simple Gifts (from Old American Songs, Set I) Benjamin Britten (piano) I Bought me a Cat Benjamin Britten (piano) | Dowland: | I saw my Lady weepe Julian Bream (guitar) What if I never speed? Julian Bream (guitar) | Ford, T: | Faire, sweet, cruell Julian Bream (guitar) | Grainger: | Six Dukes Went a-Fishin' Benjamin Britten (piano) | Ireland: | I Have Twelve Oxen Benjamin Britten (piano) | Moeran: | In youth is pleasure Benjamin Britten (piano) | Morley: | It was a lover and his lass Julian Bream (guitar) | Rosseter: | What then is love but mourning? Julian Bream (guitar) | Schubert: | Im Frühling, D882 Benjamin Britten (piano) Auf der Bruck, D853 Benjamin Britten (piano) An die Laute D905 Benjamin Britten (piano) Die Taubenpost, D965A (D957 No. 14) Benjamin Britten (piano) | Warlock: | Yarmouth Fair Benjamin Britten (piano) |
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| |  | The Very Best of English Song
anon.: | Willow song | Balfe: | Come into the garden, Maud | Bishop, H R: | Home, Sweet Home | Brahe: | Bless this House | Butterworth, G: | Loveliest of Trees | Byrd: | Lullaby, my sweet little baby Ye sacred muses - an elegy for Thomas Tallis | Carter, S: | Down Below | Dibdin: | Tom Bowling | Dowland: | Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597) Sorrow, stay Awake, sweet love Woeful heart Shall I sue? Me, me, and none but me Flow my teares (Lacrimæ) | Finzi: | Since we loved Rollicum-rorum | Gurney: | Down by the Salley Gardens Black Stitchel | Ireland: | The Salley Gardens Sea Fever | Johnson, R: | Where the bee sucks Full fathom five | Keel: | Trade Winds (No. 2 from Three Salt-Water Ballads) | Morley: | It was a lover and his lass O mistress mine | Mortimer: | The Smuggler's Song | Parry: | O mistress mine | Peel: | In Summertime on Bredon | Purcell: | Fairest Isle (from King Arthur) Music for a while, Z583 I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen) If music be the food of love, Z379 An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193 | Quilter: | Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley) Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson) Come away, death | Shield: | The Plough Boy | Stanford: | Drake's Drum The Old Superb | Swann, D: | The Hippopotamus Song (Mud, mud, glorious mud) A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) The Wart Hog | trad.: | The Foggy, Foggy Dew Greensleeves | Vaughan Williams: | Linden Lea The Lamb The Shepherd Silent Noon | Walton: | Popular Song from 'Façade' | Warlock: | Yarmouth Fair My Own Country Passing By Pretty Ring Time Balulalow | Woodforde-Finden: | Kashmiri Song |
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| |  | Peter Pears - A Treasury of English Song
Bennett, R R: | Tom O’Bedlam’s Song with Joan Dickson (cello) | Berkeley, L: | How Love Came In with Benjamin Britten (piano) | Bridge: | Tis but a week with Benjamin Britten (piano) Goldenhair with Benjamin Britten (piano) When you are old with Benjamin Britten (piano) So perverse with Benjamin Britten (piano) Journey's end with Benjamin Britten (piano) Go Not, Happy Day with Benjamin Britten (piano) Love went a-riding with Benjamin Britten (piano) | Britten: | Folksongs (selection) with Benjamin Britten (piano) Let the florid music praise! (from On this Island) with Benjamin Britten (piano) | Busch, W: | If thou wilt ease thine heart with Viola Tunnard (piano) Come, o come, my life's delight with Viola Tunnard (piano) Two Songs of William Blake with Viola Tunnard (piano) | Bush, A: | Voices of the Prophets with Alan Bush (piano) | Butterworth, G: | Is My Team Ploughing? with Benjamin Britten (piano) | Delius: | To Daffodils with Viola Tunnard (piano) | Dieren: | Dream Pedlary with Viola Tunnard (piano) Take, o take those lips away with Viola Tunnard (piano) | Grainger: | Bold William Taylor with Viola Tunnard (piano) | Holst: | Persephone (No. 1 from 12 Songs Op. 48) with Benjamin Britten (piano) | Ireland: | The Land of Lost Content with Benjamin Britten (piano) The Trellis with Benjamin Britten (piano) Three Songs with Benjamin Britten (piano) I Have Twelve Oxen with Benjamin Britten (piano) | Moeran: | The Merry Month of May with Viola Tunnard (piano) In youth is pleasure with Benjamin Britten (piano) | Oldham, A: | Chinese Lyrics (3) with Benjamin Britten (piano) | Rainier: | Cycle for Declamation | Tippett: | Songs for Ariel with Benjamin Britten (piano) | Warlock: | Piggesnie with Viola Tunnard (piano) Along the Stream with Viola Tunnard (piano) Yarmouth Fair with Benjamin Britten (piano) |
These recordings, made over the space of a decade from March 1954 to December 1964, capture Peter Pears in the high summer of his career and at the peak of his powers, a period roughly framed by some of the highlights of his partnership with Benjamin Britten: the creation of the character of Peter Quint in the composer’s The Turn of the Screw in Venice in September 1954 and the euphoric response to the first performance in 1962 of the War Requiem, one of the great events of post-war English musical life. The title ‘An Anthology of English Song’ was chosen by Decca for a projected three volumes featuring Pears. The first, with Julian Bream, included Renaissance lute songs by Dowland, Morley and others. The second was presumably intended to included 18th and 19th-century titles but was never made. The third, made in 1955, consisted of 20th-century English song, and much of this material appears on CD for the first time [CD2: 10-21]. A year earlier, Pears and Britten recorded nine of Britten’s folk song arrangements; these particular recordings (made in the same sessions as those for Winter Words) too receive their first release on CD [CD2: 1-9]. More British song was recorded with Britten in 1963 and with pianist Viola Tunnard (who worked closely with Britten in the 1960s, particularly on the Church Parables) in 1964. Of special interest too, will be works Pears commissioned from contemporary composers including the Cycle for Declamation by the South-African-born Priaulx Rainier, a testing tour de force for unaccompanied voice and Richard Rodney Bennett’s dramatic 1961 setting for voice and cello of the anonymous 17th-century ballad Tom O’Bedlam’s Song. “Gracefully patrician in tone but always perceptive, Pears, with Britten's acute accompaniment, explores a wide range of British song from Butterworth to Tippett.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2011 **** “To Daffodils is exquisitely sung, and The merry month of May is a tour de force spectacularly brought off by Viola Tunnard” … “The record is completed by a splendid scena by Richard Rodney Bennett, the accompaniment for cello alone, and three prose texts by John Donne set by Priaulx Rainier for unaccompanied voice. Peter Pears sings these with marvellous intensity and understanding, and Joan Dickson’s cello playing in Tom O’ Bedlam is very good indeed.” Gramophone Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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anon.: | Miserere, my Maker | Berkeley, L: | How Love Came In | Bridge: | Go Not, Happy Day Love went a-riding | Britten: | Let the florid music praise! (from On this Island) | Butterworth, G: | Is My Team Ploughing? | Campion: | Come let us sound with melody Fair, if you expect admiring Shall I come, sweet love, to thee? | Dowland: | I saw my Lady weepe Awake, sweet love Fine knacks for ladies Sorrow, stay If my complaints could passions move What if I never speed? | Ford, T: | Faire, sweet, cruell Come Phyllis come | Holst: | Persephone (No. 1 from 12 Songs Op. 48) | Ireland: | I Have Twelve Oxen | Moeran: | In youth is pleasure | Morley: | It was a lover and his lass O mistress mine Thirsis and Milla I saw my lady weeping What if my mistress now | Oldham, A: | Chinese Lyrics (3) | Pilkington: | Rest sweet Nimphs | Rosseter: | When Laura smiles What then is love but mourning? Sweet come again What is a day? | Warlock: | Yarmouth Fair |
Peter Pears’ voice was undoubtedly one of the finest and most distinctive of the twentieth century and here he collaborates with Julian Bream and Benjamin Britten in performances of English song. Repertoire includes works by Ford, Morley, Rosseter, Dowland, Pilkington, Campion, Bridge, Butterworth, Ireland, Moeran, Warlock, Holst, Berkeley, Oldham and Britten. | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Very Best of English Song
anon.: | Willow song Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute) | Balfe: | Come into the garden, Maud Robert Tear (tenor), André Previn (piano) | Bishop, H R: | Home, Sweet Home Robert Tear (tenor), André Previn (piano) | Brahe: | Bless this house Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), Sir Philip Ledger (piano) | Britten: | The foggy, foggy dew Robert Tear (tenor), André Previn (piano) The Plough Boy Robert Tear (tenor), André Previn (piano) Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31 Robert Tear (tenor), Alan Civil (horn) Northern Sinfonia, Sir Neville Marriner Les illuminations, Op. 18 John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Pauline Lowbury (violin) Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury | Butterworth, G: | Loveliest of Trees Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano) Love Blows As The Wind Blows Robert Tear (tenor) Vernon Handley | Byrd: | Lullaby, my sweet little baby Michael Chance (countertenor) Fretwork Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis Michael Chance (countertenor), Christopher Wilson (lute) | Carter, S: | Down Below Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Donald Swann (piano) | Delius: | Sea Drift John Noble (baritone) Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves | Dibdin: | Tom Bowling Robert Tear (tenor), André Previn (piano) | Dowland: | Sorrow, stay Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute) Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597) Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute) Awake, sweet love Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute) Woeful heart Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute) Shall I sue? Charles Daniels (tenor), David Miller (lute) Me, me, and none but me Charles Daniels (tenor), David Miller (lute) Flow my teares (Lacrimæ) Charles Daniels (tenor), David Miller (lute) | Elgar: | Sea Pictures, Op. 37 Dame Janet Baker (mezzo) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli Two Songs Op. 60 (The Torch; The River) Robert Tear (tenor) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley | Finzi: | Since we loved Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) Rollicum-rorum Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano) Dies natalis, Op. 8 Wilfred Brown (tenor) English Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Finzi | Gurney: | Down by the Salley Gardens Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano) Black Stitchel Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano) | Ireland: | The Salley Gardens Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano) Sea Fever Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano) | Johnson, R: | Where the bee sucks Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute) Full fathom five Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute) | Keel: | Trade Winds (No. 2 from Three Salt-Water Ballads) Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano) | Morley: | It was a lover and his lass Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute) O mistress mine Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute) | Mortimer: | The Smuggler's Song Owen Brannigan (bass), Gerald Moore (piano) | Parry: | O Mistress Mine Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano) | Peel: | Bredon Hill Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) In Summertime on Bredon orchestral version Frederick Harvey (baritone) George Weldon | Purcell: | Fairest Isle (from King Arthur) Nancy Argenta (soprano), Nigel North (lute) Music for a while, Z583 Nancy Argenta (soprano), John Toll (harpsichord) I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen) Nancy Argenta (soprano), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) If music be the food of love, Z379 Nancy Argenta (soprano), Richard Boothby (lute), John Toll (harpsichord) An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193 Nancy Argenta (soprano), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) | Quilter: | Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley) Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano) Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson) Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Come away, death Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) | Sanderson, W: | Devonshire Cream and Cider orchestral version Frederick Harvey (baritone) Philharmonia Orchestra, George Weldon | Stanford: | Drake's Drum Robert Lloyd (bass), Nina Walker (piano) The Old Superb Robert Lloyd (bass), Nina Walker (piano) Songs of the Sea, Op. 91 Benjamin Luxon (bass-baritone) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar | Swann, D: | A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Donald Swann (piano) The Wart Hog Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Donald Swann (piano) The Hippopotamus Song (Mud, mud, glorious mud) Michael Flanders & Donald Swann | trad.: | Greensleeves Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute) | Vaughan Williams: | Linden Lea Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano) The Lamb Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano) The Shepherd Ian Partridge (tenor) Silent Noon Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) Songs of Travel Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) Sir Simon Rattle Five Mystical Songs John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone) Choir of King's College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks On Wenlock Edge orchestral version Ian Bostridge (tenor) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink | Walton: | Popular Song from 'Façade' Fenella Fielding, Michael Flanders Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner | Warlock: | My Own Country Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano) Passing By Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano) Pretty Ring Time Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano) Balulalow Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), Sir Philip Ledger (piano) Yarmouth Fair Owen Brannigan (bass), Ernest Lush (piano) | Woodforde-Finden: | Kashmiri Song Frederick Harvey (baritone), Jack Byfield (piano) |
Ranging from Shakespeare’s contemporaries to the Victorian school and beyond, this fine box set calls on some of the greatest artists—including a wealth of British talent—to celebrate the diversity and longevity of English song. From simple melodic expression to the textural sophistication of orchestral settings, with the sea and landscape assuming a prominent role throughout, the songs included here comprise a fitting tribute, simultaneously revealing the rich cultural legacy of English poetry. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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