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Poetry by Wiiliam Affleck (1868-1943)
Track(s) taken from CDH55156
The song ‘Drink to me only’ goes back long before Victorian balladry and must be one of the most famous of all British songs. The words appeared in 1716 in a collection of Ben Jonson’s poems called ‘The Forest’, and its musical setting to an old English air can be traced back at least to around 1780. The present arrangement of that traditional air is by Roger Quilter.

from notes by Andrew Lamb © 2002

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Recording details: June 1995
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 1995
Total duration: 2 minutes 45 seconds

Drink to me only with thine eyes
composer
Anonymous
traditional air
arranger
Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
Old English Popular Songs, pub. 1921
author of text
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
The Forest

Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Boosey & Hawkes

Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)
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Drink to me only with thine eyes  [2'45]  arr. Roger Quilter (1877-1953) English
Other recordings available for download
Thomas Allen (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

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Cover of 'Quilter: Songs' (CDA66878)
Quilter: Songs
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Cover of 'Songs my father taught me' (CDA67290)
Songs my father taught me
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
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