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Track(s) taken from CDH55156

Roses of Picardy

First line:
She is watching by the poplars
composer
Haydn Wood (1882-1959)
1916
author of text
Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848-1929)

Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)
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: 4 minutes 44 seconds

Cover artwork: Poetry. Wiiliam Affleck (1868-1943)
 

Other recordings available for download

Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Written in 1916 by Haydn Wood in conjunction with the famous lyricist Fred E Weatherly, ‘Picardy’ is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful songs of the First World War. I learned it from my father who sang it first in France and Belgium when he served in that war with the American Army. Incidentally, Fred E Weatherly collaborated with many other composers to produce such hits as The Holy City and Danny Boy.

from notes by Robert White © 1995

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More songs my father taught me
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My Garden
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