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)

Recordings

Bird Songs at Eventide

Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)

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Songs my father taught me

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

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Details

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

Track 15 on CDA67290 [2'31]

English

Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)

Track 25 on CDH55156 [3'03] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

English

A brown bird singing

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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