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Track(s) taken from CDH55156

A brown bird singing

First line:
All through the night there's a little brown bird singing
composer
1922
author of text
author of text

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: 3 minutes 3 seconds

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

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

from notes by Andrew Lamb © 2002

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