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Track(s) taken from CDH55355

Sailor's song, Hob XXVIa:31

First line:
High on the giddy bending mast
composer
author of text

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Recording details: May 2001
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: October 2002
Total duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds

Cover artwork: View of St James’s Palace and Pall Mall (detail). John Paul (fl1780-1840)
Sotheby’s Picture Library
 

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Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Rufus Müller (tenor), Timothy Roberts (fortepiano)

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