The Very Best of English Song

Product Details

Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724357592628
Label : EMI Classics
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2003-06-02
UPC : 724357592628

ASIN : B00009KPH5

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Linden Lea - A Dorset Song - Dame Janet Baker
2. The Salley Gardens - John Ireland
3. O Mistress Mine - Hubert Parry
4. Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 - Gerald Moore
5. Now Sleep The Crimson Petal - Quilter
6. Bredon Hill - Geoffrey Parsons
7. Loveliest Of Trees (A Shropshire Lad No. 1) - George Butterworth
8. Down By The Salley Gardens - Ivor Gurney
9. Black Stitchel - Ivor Gurney
10. My Own Country - Peter Warlock
11. Passing By - Peter Warlock
12. Tretty Ring Time - David Willison
13. The Lamb - Ralph Vaughan Williams
14. The Shepherd (Ten Blake Songs Nos. 5 & 6) - Ian Partridge
15. Silent Moon (The House Of Life No. 2) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
16. Come Away, Death Op. 6 No. 1 - Roger Quilter
17. Since We Loved (Oh Fair To See, No. 7) - Ian Bostridge
18. Rollicum-rorum (Earth And Air And Rain, No. 6) - Gerald Finzi
19. Sea Fever - John Ireland
20. Trade Winds (Salt-Water Ballads No. 2) - Roger Vignoles
21. Drake's Drum - Charles Villiers Stanford
22. The Old Superb (Songs Of The Sea Nos. 1 & 5) - Robert Lloyd
23. Kashmiri Song (Four Indian Love-Lyrics No. 3) - Jack Byfield
24. Bless This House - May Brahe
25. Balulow - Dame Janet Baker
26. Tom Bowling - Charles Dibdin
27. Home! Sweet Home! - Henry R. Bishop
28. Come Into The Garden, Maud - Robert Tear
29. The Foggy, Foggy Dew - Benjamin Britten
30. The Plough Boy - Robert Tear
31. Popular Song (Facade No. 19) - Sir Neville Marriner

Disc-2
1. Greensleeves - Traditional English
2. It Was A Lover And His Lass - Thomas Morley
3. O Mistress Mine - Thomas Morley
4. The Willow Song - Anonymous
5. Where The Bee Sucks - Robert Johnson
6. Full Fathom Five - Alfred Deller
7. Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby - William Byrd
8. Elegy On The Death Of Thomas Tallis: Ye Sacred Muses - Michael Chance
9. Sorrow, Stay! (Second Book Of Songs) - John Dowland
10. Can She Excuse My Wrongs? (First Book Of Songs) - John Dowland
11. Awake, Sweet Love (First Book Of Songs) - John Dowland
12. Woeful Heart (Second Book Of Songs) - Emma Kirkby
13. Shall I Sue? (Second Book Of Songs) - John Dowland
14. Me, Me And None But Me (Third And Last Book Of Songs) - John Dowland
15. Flow, My Tears (Second Book Of Songs) - Charles Daniels
16. Fairest Isle - Henry Purcell
17. Music For A While - Henry Purcell
18. I Attempt From Love's Sickness - Henry Purcell
19. If Music Be The Food Of Love - Henry Purcell
20. An Evening Hymn: Now That The Sun Hath Veiled His Light - Nancy Argenta
21. Yarmouth Fair - Peter Warlock
22. The Smuggler's Song - Gerald Moore
23. Down Below - Sydney Carter
24. A Transport Of Delight - Donald Swann
25. The Wart Hog - Donald Swann
26. The Hippopotamus Song - Swann

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The Very Best of (Southern) English Song (2008-01-26)

Understated, underrated. Understated is one thing, underrated is another.In fact, it's a masterly selection. Why doesn't it have more reviews? Why isn't it top of the pops? Oh, I see. Not good Enough for the Great British Public. Silly of me not to realise.A rich range, containing Home and Away, Sea and Empire, war and love, history. Should be a compulsory part of the National Curriculum. Bet there's plenty of stuff they could ditch that covers the same ground [or less] much more boringly.The music shows the man: one who knew his country and loved it.I didn't know the English had so many good songs. I knew they had a few, but thought the Celts were the only ones in these islands to have more than their fair share of really good songs.I bet he was a Southerner though. Excellent though the selection is, for me, for it to excel excellent [and do the North justice] it would have a few like Ilkley Moor, the Oak and the Ash, and the Blaydon Races.Stiil, not bad for a Southron!

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