Hyperion Records | Britten: Folksong Arrangements

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CDD22042
(Originally issued on CDA66941/2)
Dyad (2 CDs for the price of 1)

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Recording details: July 1994
St Alban's Church, Holborn, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 2000
Total duration: 124 minutes 37 seconds

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10 de Répertoire, France

'This is a superb collection... This will be one of my favorite sets of 1995' (Fanfare, USA)

'Interprètes exceptionelles' (Répertoire, France)

'El sonido es magnifico, y la recomendabilidad absolute por la belleza de la musica y el alto nivel de las versiones' (Scherzo, Spain)

'Delivered faultlessly. The Plough Boy whistles jauntily, the bluebells ring in The Ash Grove, the Miller of Dee sings at his workplace. Exquisite' (The Leeds Guide)

Britten: Folksong Arrangements

51 songs from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France

Lorna Anderson (soprano), Regina Nathan (soprano), Jamie MacDougall (tenor)

CD1	1	The Salley Gardens 'Down by the Salley Gardens my love and I did meet' [2'31] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	2	Little Sir William 'Easter day was a holiday' [2'59] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	3	The bonny Earl O'Moray 'Ye Hielands and ye Low-lands' [2'50] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	4	O can ye sew cushions? [2'01] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	5	The trees they grow so high [2'37] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	6	The ash grove 'Down yonder green valley where streamlets meander' [2'04] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	7	Oliver Cromwell 'Oliver Cromwell lay buried and dead' [0'41] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	8	La noël passée [4'22] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	9	Voici le printemps [1'40] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	10	Fileuse 'Lorsque j'étais jeunette, je gardais les moutons' [2'11] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	11	Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse [2'20] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	12	La belle est au jardin d'amour [2'41] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	13	Il est quelqu'un sur terre [4'55] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	14	Eho! Eho! [1'54] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	15	Quand j'étais chez mon père [1'49] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	16	The plough boy 'A flaxen-headed cowboy, as simple as may be' [1'53] William Shield (1748-1829), arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	17	There's none to soothe [1'39] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	18	Sweet Polly Oliver 'As sweet Polly Oliver lay musing in bed' [1'54] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	19	The miller of Dee 'There was a jolly miller once lived on the river Dee' [1'55] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	20	The foggy, foggy dew 'When I was a bachelor I lived all alone' [2'12] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	21	O Waly, Waly 'The water is wide, I cannot get o'er' [3'45] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	22	Come you not from Newcastle? [1'06] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	23	The brisk young widow 'In Chester town there liv'd a brisk young widow' [2'01] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	24	Sally in our alley 'Of all the girls that are so smart' [4'34] Henry Carey (c1690-1743), arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	25	The Lincolnshire poacher 'When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire' [2'00] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	26	Early one morning [2'50] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	27	Ca' the yowes [4'21] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
CD2	1	I will give my love an apple [1'07] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Craig Ogden (guitar)
	2	Sailor-boy 'We go walking on the green grass' [1'33] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Craig Ogden (guitar)
	3	Master Kilby 'In the heat of the day when the sun shines so freely' [1'44] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Craig Ogden (guitar)
	4	The soldier and the sailor 'as the soldier and the sailor was a-walking one day' [2'29] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Craig Ogden (guitar)
	5	Bonny at morn 'with guitar' 'The sheep's in the meadows' [2'31] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Craig Ogden (guitar)
	6	The shooting of his dear 'O come all you young fellows that carry a gun' [2'38] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Craig Ogden (guitar)
	7	Lord! I married me a wife [1'14] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Bryn Lewis (harp)
	8	She's like the swallow [2'41] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Bryn Lewis (harp)
	9	Lemady 'One midsummer's morn as I was a-walking' [1'26] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Bryn Lewis (harp)
	10	Bonny at morn 'with harp' 'The sheep's in the meadows, the kye's in the corn' [3'32] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Bryn Lewis (harp)
	11	Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn 'Watching the Wheat' 'Mi sy'n fachgen ifanc ffôl 'I am a young and foolish lad'' [2'12] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Bryn Lewis (harp)
	12	David of the White Rock 'Cariwch, medd Dafydd, Fy nhelun i mi 'Bring me my harp'' [3'02] David Owen (1709-1739), arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Bryn Lewis (harp)
	13	The false knight upon the road 'The knight met the child in the road' [3'30] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Bryn Lewis (harp)
	14	Bird scarer's song 'Shoo all 'er birds you be so black' [0'55] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Bryn Lewis (harp)
	15	Avenging and bright [1'37] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	16	Sail on, sail on [2'31] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	17	How sweet the answer [2'05] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	18	The minstrel boy [2'24] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	19	At the mid hour of night [2'46] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	20	Rich and rare [2'57] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	21	Dear harp of my country! [3'03] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	22	Oft in the stilly night [2'49] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	23	The last rose of summer [4'09] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
	24	O the sight entrancing [1'57] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Malcolm Martineau (piano)