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HYP30

A Treasury of English Song

Super-budget price sampler — Deleted
Recording details: Various dates
Various recording venues
Produced by Various producers
Engineered by Various engineers
Release date: April 2004
Total duration: 75 minutes 2 seconds
 
1
Sea fever   I must go down to the seas again  [2'11]  John Ireland (1879-1962)

Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Earth and Air and Rain Op 15  Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
2
To Lizbie Browne   Dear Lizbie Browne  [4'21]

Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
3
Down by the salley gardens  [2'15]  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)

Stephen Roberts (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
4
I will go with my father a-ploughing  [2'43]  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)

Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
5
I have twelve oxen  [1'47]  John Ireland (1879-1962)

Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
6
Fish in the unruffled lakes  [2'47]  Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
7
Orpheus with his lute  [2'37]  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
8
Ha'nacker Mill   Sally is gone that was so kindly  [2'22]  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)

Michael George (bass), Clifford Benson (piano)
Three Shakespeare Songs Op 6  Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
9
Come away, death  [2'59]

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Five Elizabethan Songs  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
10
Under the greenwood tree  [1'41]

Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
11
As ever I saw   She is gentle and also wise  [1'33]  Peter Warlock (1894-1930)

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
12
From the red rose  [1'32]  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Winter Words Op 52  Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
13
No 5: The choirmaster's burial 'The tenor man's story'   He often would ask us  [3'45]
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
14
Yarmouth Fair   As I rode down to Yarmouth Fair  [1'56]  Peter Warlock (1894-1930)

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
15
June on Castle Hill Op 13a No 5   On its grassy brow  [1'47]  Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

Stephen Roberts (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
16
The call of the morning   Vale of the waterfalls!  [1'30]  William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Ian Brown (piano)
17
Five eyes Op 15 No 2 or Op 9 No 3  [1'10]  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)

Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
18
Charles Augustus Fortescue. who always did what was right, and so accumulated an immense fortune  [3'16]  Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Maud  Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)
19
No 9: Come into the garden, Maud  [3'36]
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano)
20
Go not, happy day  [1'12]  Frank Bridge (1879-1941)

Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Songs of travel  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
21
Let Beauty awake  [2'01]

Christopher Maltman (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
22
Song to the Seals  [3'58]  Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946)

Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)
A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster Op 140  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
23
No 3: A soft day   A soft day, thank God!  [2'13]

Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
A Fire of Turf Op 139  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
24
Blackberry time   In blackberry time herself and me  [2'07]

Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
Three Belloc songs  Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
25
My own country   I shall go without companions  [2'15]

Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
26
Ann's cradle song Op 20 No 1  [2'37]  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)

Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
27
Now sleeps the crimson petal Op 3 No 2  [2'01]  Roger Quilter (1877-1953)

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
28
Armida's garden   I have been there before, O my love!  [2'07]  Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918)

Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
29
The lads in their hundreds   (No 5 of Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad)  [2'02]  George Butterworth (1885-1916)

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
The clown's songs from 'Twelfth night' Op 65  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
30
The rain it raineth every day   When that I was and a little tiny boy  [1'26]

Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
31
If it's ever spring again  [1'03]  Robin Milford (1903-1959)

Ian Partridge (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)
32
To Gratiana dancing and singing   See! with what constant motion  [4'12]  William Denis Browne (1888-1915)

Martyn Hill (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)

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