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The Very Best of English Song

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Release date: 2012
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Tracks: 127
Duration: 06:23:18
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No. Title Length
1. Linden Lea - A Dorset song (Janet Baker, Gerald Moore) 2:53
2. Songs Sacred and Profane: 4. The Salley Gardens (Janet Baker, Gerald Moore) 2:13
3. English Lyrics Set II: 1. O mistress mine (Janet Baker, Gerald Moore) 1:31
4. Three Songs Op. 3: 1. Love's Philosophy (Janet Baker, Gerald Moore) 1:30
5. Now sleeps the crimson petal Op. 3 No. 2 (Thomas Allen, Geoffrey Parsons) 2:13
6. In summertime on Bredon (Thomas Allen, Geoffrey Parsons) 3:43
7. Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad': I. Loveliest of trees (Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison) 2:51
8. Down by the Salley Gardens (Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison) 2:35
9. Black Stitchel (Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison) 2:10
10. My Own Country (Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison) 2:33
11. Passing By (Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison) 2:30
12. Pretty Ring Time (Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison) 1:16
13. Ten Blake Songs: 5. The Lamb (Ian Partridge, Janet Craxton) 2:17
14. Ten Blake Songs: 6. The Shepherd [oboe tacet] (Ian Partridge) 0:56
15. Silent Noon (No. 2 of The House of Life) (Julius Drake, Ian Bostridge) 4:18
16. Come away, death, Op.6 No. 1 (Julius Drake, Ian Bostridge) 3:01
17. Since we loved, Op.13 No. 7 (Julius Drake, Ian Bostridge) 1:16
18. Earth and Air and Rain Op. 15: 6. Rollicum-Rorum (Jonathan Lemalu, Roger Vignoles) 2:02
19. Sea Fever (Jonathan Lemalu, Roger Vignoles) 2:11
20. Trade Winds (Salt-Water Ballads No. 2) (Jonathan Lemalu, Roger Vignoles) 2:23
21. Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (version with piano) : I. Drake's Drum (Tempo di marcia moderato) (Robert Lloyd) 2:43
22. Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (version with piano): V. The Old Superb (Allegro vivace) (Robert Lloyd) 3:25
23. Four Indian Love Lyrics: 3. Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar (Kashmiri Song) (Frederick Harvey, Jack Byfield) 3:01
24. Bless this House (Janet Baker, Philip Ledger) 3:15
25. Balulalow (wds Wedderburn brothers after Luther) (Janet Baker, Philip Ledger) 1:49
26. Tom Bowling (Robert Tear, André Previn / Andre Previn) 4:19
27. Home! Sweet Home! (Robert Tear, André Previn / Andre Previn) 3:35
28. Come into the garden, Maud (Robert Tear, André Previn / Andre Previn) 4:13
29. Folk Song Arrangement: The Foggy, Foggy Dew (Philip Ledger, Robert Tear) 2:24
30. Folk Song Arrangement: The Plough Boy (Philip Ledger, Robert Tear) 1:50
31. Façade - An entertainment with poems by Edith: 19. Popular Song (Neville Marriner, The Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields, Michael Flanders, Fenella Fielding) 2:02
32. Greensleeves [solo lute verse at end cut] (Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré / Desmond Dupre) 4:16
33. Two songs: It was a lover and his lasse (The First Booke of Ayres or Little Short Songs) (As you like it) (Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré / Desmond Dupre) 3:09
34. Two songs: O mistress mine (attrib. Morley; arr. from The First Booke of Consort Lessons) (Twelfth Night) (Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré / Desmond Dupre) 1:39
35. The Willow Song (Othello) (Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré / Desmond Dupre) 1:14
36. Where the bee sucks (The Tempest) (Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré / Desmond Dupre) 2:12
37. Full fathom five (The Tempest) (Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré / Desmond Dupre) 5:59
38. Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby [Last Verse Cut] (Michael Chance, Fretwork) 4:08
39. Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis (Ye sacred muses) (Michael Chance, Christopher Wilson) 3:04
40. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: Sorrow, stay! (Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby) 2:32
41. Can she excuse my wrongs? (The First Booke of Songes or Ayres) (Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby) 2:48
42. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: Awake, sweet love (The First Booke of Songes) (Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby) 2:50
43. Woeful heart (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres) (Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby) 2:36
44. Shall I sue? (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres) (Charlie Daniels, David Miller) 2:11
45. Me, me and none but me (The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires) (Charlie Daniels, David Miller) 3:49
46. Flow, my tears (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres) (Charlie Daniels, David Miller) 2:37
47. King Arthur, Z.628: Fairest isle (Nancy Argenta, Nigel North) 3:55
48. Oedipus, Z.583: Music for a while (Nancy Argenta, John Toll) 2:01
49. I attempt from love's sickness to fly, Z.630 (Nancy Argenta, Paul Nicholson) 2:05
50. If music be the food of love (1st setting), Z.379 (Nancy Argenta, John Toll, Richard Boothby) 5:24
51. Now that the sun hath veiled his light, Z.193 (Nancy Argenta, Paul Nicholson) 1:40
52. Yarmouth Fair (Owen Brannigan, Ernest Lush) 3:37
53. The Smuggler's Song (Gerald Moore, Owen Brannigan) 2:44
54. Down Below (Ian Wallace, Donald Swann) 2:36
55. A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) (Ian Wallace, Donald Swann) 3:48
56. The Wart Hog (Ian Wallace, Donald Swann) 4:04
57. The Hippopotamus Song [introduced by Michael Flanders] (Donald Swann, Michael Flanders) 4:04
58. Sea Pictures, Op.37: I. Sea Slumber-Song (Janet Baker, London Symphony Orchestra And Chorus, Sir John Barbirolli) 2:06
59. Sea Pictures, Op.37: II. In Haven (Capri) (Janet Baker, London Symphony Orchestra And Chorus, Sir John Barbirolli) 6:20
60. Sea Pictures, Op.37: III. Sabbath Morning at Sea (Janet Baker, London Symphony Orchestra And Chorus, Sir John Barbirolli) 4:11
61. Sea Pictures, Op.37: IV. Where Corals Lie (Janet Baker, London Symphony Orchestra And Chorus, Sir John Barbirolli) 6:10
62. Sea Pictures, Op.37: V. The Swimmer (Janet Baker, London Symphony Orchestra And Chorus, Sir John Barbirolli) 3:02
63. Songs of Travel: 1. The Vagabond (Simon Rattle, Thomas Allen) 2:20
64. Songs of Travel: 2. Let beauty awake (Simon Rattle, Thomas Allen) 3:17
65. Songs of Travel: 3. The Roadside Fire (Simon Rattle, Thomas Allen) 2:36
66. Songs of Travel: 4. Youth and Love (Simon Rattle, Thomas Allen) 2:06
67. Songs of Travel: 5. In Dreams (Simon Rattle, Thomas Allen) 3:49
68. Songs of Travel: 6. The infinite shining heavens (Simon Rattle, Thomas Allen) 1:55
69. Songs of Travel: 7. Whither must I wander (Simon Rattle, Thomas Allen) 2:10
70. Songs of Travel: 8. Bright is the ring of words (Simon Rattle, Thomas Allen) 1:24
71. Songs of Travel: 9. I have trod the upward and the downward slope (Simon Rattle, Thomas Allen) 3:44
72. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: Prologue (horn solo) (Neville Marriner, Robert Tear, Alan Civil, Northern Sinfonia) 4:30
73. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 1. Pastoral: The day's grown old (Charles Cotton) (Neville Marriner, Robert Tear, Alan Civil, Northern Sinfonia) 3:25
74. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 2. Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) (Neville Marriner, Robert Tear, Alan Civil, Northern Sinfonia) 2:02
75. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 3. Elegy: O Rose, thou art sick (William Blake) (Neville Marriner, Robert Tear, Alan Civil, Northern Sinfonia) 4:44
76. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 4. Dirge: This ae nighte (anon. 15th century) (Neville Marriner, Robert Tear, Alan Civil, Northern Sinfonia) 1:38
77. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 5. Hymn: Queen and huntress (Ben Jonson) (Neville Marriner, Robert Tear, Alan Civil, Northern Sinfonia) 2:40
78. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 6. Sonnet: O soft embalmer of the still midnight (John Keats) [horn tacet] (Neville Marriner, Robert Tear, Alan Civil, Northern Sinfonia) 0:47
79. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: Epilogue (horn solo) (Neville Marriner, Robert Tear, Alan Civil, Northern Sinfonia) 1:38
80. Folk Song Arrangements [with orch.]: The Bonny Earl o' Moray (Scottish tune) (Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Neil Mackie) 2:40
81. Folk Song Arrangements [with orch.]: Oliver Cromwell (nursery rhyme from Suffolk) (Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Neil Mackie) 0:47
82. Five Mystical Songs: 1. Easter (Cambridge, King'S College Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, David Willcocks) 2:53
83. Five Mystical Songs: 2. I got me flowers (Cambridge, King'S College Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, David Willcocks) 5:26
84. Five Mystical Songs: 3. Love bade me welcome (Cambridge, King'S College Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, David Willcocks) 2:09
85. Five Mystical Songs: 4. The Call [baritone only] (English Chamber Orchestra, David Willcocks) 3:23
86. Five Mystical Songs: 5. Antiphon [chorus only] (Cambridge, King'S College Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, David Willcocks) 5:06
87. Dies natalis, Op.8: 1. Intrada - (English Chamber Orchestra, Wilfred Brown) 3:33
88. Dies natalis, Op.8: 2. Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato) (English Chamber Orchestra, Wilfred Brown) 4:19
89. Dies natalis, Op.8: 3. The Rapture (Danza) (English Chamber Orchestra, Wilfred Brown) 4:17
90. Dies natalis, Op.8: 4. Wonder (Arioso) (English Chamber Orchestra, Wilfred Brown) 3:21
91. Dies natalis, Op.8: 5. The Salutation (Aria) (English Chamber Orchestra, Wilfred Brown) 3:09
92. Songs of the Sea Op. 91: I. Drake's Drum (Tempo di marcia moderato) (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Luxon, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Norman Del Mar) 6:52
93. Songs of the Sea Op. 91: II. Outward Bound (Andante espressivo) (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Luxon, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Norman Del Mar) 3:11
94. Songs of the Sea Op. 91: III. Devon, O Devon, in Wind and Rain (Allegro con fuoco) (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Luxon, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Norman Del Mar) 2:27
95. Songs of the Sea Op. 91: IV. Homeward Bound (Andante tranquillo) (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Luxon, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Norman Del Mar) 3:46
96. Songs of the Sea Op. 91: V. The Old Superb (Allegro vivace) (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Luxon, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Norman Del Mar) 3:19
97. The Torch Op. 60 No. 1 (Robert Tear, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley) 2:27
98. The River Op. 60 No. 2 (Robert Tear, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley) 3:46
99. Love blows as the wind blows: In the year that's come and gone - (Robert Tear, Vernon Handley) 4:40
100. Love blows as the wind blows: Life in her creaking shoes - (Robert Tear, Vernon Handley) 2:03
101. Love blows as the wind blows: Coming up from Richmond (Robert Tear, Vernon Handley) 4:40
102. Les Illuminations Op. 18: I. Fanfare (John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury) 2:20
103. Les Illuminations Op. 18: II. Villes (John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury) 0:55
104. Les Illuminations Op. 18: IIIa. Phrase (John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury) 2:04
105. Les Illuminations Op. 18: IIIb. Antique (John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury) 1:34
106. Les Illuminations Op. 18: IV. Royauté (John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury) 0:57
107. Les Illuminations Op. 18: V. Marine (John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury) 2:43
108. Les Illuminations Op. 18: VI. Interlude (John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury) 3:54
109. Les Illuminations Op. 18: VII. Being Beauteous (John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury) 2:34
110. Les Illuminations Op. 18: VIII. Parade (John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury) 2:48
111. Les Illuminations Op. 18: IX. Départ (John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury) 3:49
112. Sea Drift: Once Paumanok - (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, John Noble, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves, Edmund Walters) 2:37
113. Sea Drift: Shine! shine! shine! - (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, John Noble, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves, Edmund Walters) 1:57
114. Sea Drift: Till of a sudden - (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, John Noble, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves, Edmund Walters) 4:05
115. Sea Drift: Blow! blow! blow! (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, John Noble, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves, Edmund Walters) 1:36
116. Sea Drift: Yes my brother I know - (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, John Noble, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves, Edmund Walters) 6:25
117. Sea Drift: O rising stars! - (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, John Noble, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves, Edmund Walters) 3:06
118. Sea Drift: O reckless despairing carols - (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, John Noble, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves, Edmund Walters) 3:51
119. Sea Drift: O past! O happy life (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, John Noble, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves, Edmund Walters) 2:04
120. On Wenlock Edge: I. On Wenlock Edge (The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Ian Bostridge) 0:44
121. On Wenlock Edge: II. From far, from eve and morning (The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Ian Bostridge) 7:37
122. On Wenlock Edge: III. Is my team ploughing? (The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Ian Bostridge) 3:22
123. On Wenlock Edge: IV. Oh, when I was in love with you (The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Ian Bostridge) 3:09
124. On Wenlock Edge: V. Bredon Hill (The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Ian Bostridge) 3:54
125. On Wenlock Edge: VI. Clun (The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Ian Bostridge) 3:22
126. In summertime on Bredon [with orch.] (Philharmonia Orchestra, Frederick Harvey) 3:09
127. Devonshire Cream and Cider [with orch.] (Philharmonia Orchestra, Frederick Harvey) 3:54

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