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Cover of HYP30 - A Treasury of English Song - Hyperion Records
HYP30


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Recording details: Various dates
Various recording venues
Produced by Various producers
Engineered by Various engineers
Release date: April 2004
Total duration: 74 minutes 55 seconds

A Treasury of English Song
Super-budget price sampler — Deleted  
1
Sea fever   I must go down to the seas again  [2'11]  John Ireland (1879-1962)
Thomas Allen (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Earth and Air and Rain Op 15  Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) English
2
No 07: To Lizbie Browne   Dear Lizbie Browne  [4'21] English
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
3
Down by the salley gardens  [2'15]  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) English
Stephen Roberts (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
4
I will go with my father a-ploughing  [2'43]  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) English
Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
5
I have twelve oxen  [1'47]  John Ireland (1879-1962)
Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
6
Fish in the unruffled lakes  [2'47]  Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) English
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
7
Orpheus with his lute  [2'37]  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
8
Ha'nacker Mill   Sally is gone that was so kindly  [2'22]  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) English
Michael George (bass), Clifford Benson (piano)
Three Shakespeare Songs Op 6  Roger Quilter (1877-1953) English
9
No 1: Come away, death  [2'59]
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Five Elizabethan Songs  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
10
No 3: Under the greenwood tree  [1'41] English
Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
11
As ever I saw   She is gentle and also wise  [1'31]  Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
12
From the red rose  [1'32]  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Winter Words Op 52  Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) English
13
No 5: The Choirmaster's Burial 'The Tenor Man's Story'  [3'45]
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
14
Yarmouth fair   As I rode down to Yarmouth Fair  [1'56]  Peter Warlock (1894-1930) & John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
15
June on Castle Hill Op 13a No 5   On its grassy brow  [1'47]  Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) English
Stephen Roberts (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
16
The call of the morning   Vale of the waterfalls!  [1'30]  William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Ian Brown (piano)
17
Five eyes Op 15 No 2 or Op 9 No 3  [1'10]  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960) English
Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
18
Charles Augustus Fortescue. who always did what was right, and so accumulated an immense fortune  [3'16]  Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) English
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Maud  Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)
19
No 09: Come into the garden, Maud  [3'36]
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano)
20
Go not, happy day  [1'07]  Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Songs of Travel  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) English
21
No 2: Let Beauty awake  [2'01] English
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
22
Song to the Seals  [3'58]  Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946) English English
Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)
A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster Op 140  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
23
No 1: A soft day   A soft day, thank God!  [2'13]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
A Fire of Turf Op 139  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
24
No 5: Blackberry time   In blackberry time herself and me  [2'07]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
Three Belloc Songs  Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
25
No 3: My own country   I shall go without companions  [2'15]
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
26
Ann's cradle song Op 20 No 1  [2'37]  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960) English
Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
27
Now sleeps the crimson petal Op 3 No 2  [2'01]  Roger Quilter (1877-1953) English English
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
28
Armida's garden   I have been there before, O my love!  [2'07]  Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad  George Butterworth (1885-1916) English
29
No 5: The lads in their hundreds  [2'02] English
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
The clown's songs from 'Twelfth night' Op 65  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
30
No 3: The rain it raineth every day   When that I was and a little tiny boy  [1'26]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
31
If it's ever spring again  [1'03]  Robin Milford (1903-1959) English
Ian Partridge (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)
32
To Gratiana dancing and singing   See! with what constant motion  [4'12]  William Denis Browne (1888-1915) English English
Martyn Hill (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)
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