A brown bird singing (Wood) - from CDA67290 - Hyperion Records

Psyche Entering Cupid’s Garden (1903) by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire / Bridgeman Art Library, London

Track(s) taken from CDA67290

The importance of Haydn Wood’s contributions to the ballad repertoire is demonstrated by this further tender example. The poet this time is ‘Royden Barrie’, a pseudonym that hid the identity of Rodney Bennett, a writer of educational textbooks who was also the father of composer Richard Rodney Bennett.

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Recording details: January 2001
Champs Hill, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: February 2002
Total duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds

A brown bird singing

First line:

All through the night there's a little brown bird singing

composer

Haydn Wood (1882-1959)

1922

author of text

Royden Barrie (1890-1948)

author of text

Rodney Richard Bennett (1890-1948)

Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)