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The Folk Songs

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. CD - 1995 CD Classical-Songs Britten Folk 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3.5 out of 5

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Compact discs. (DDD)
Program notes in English, French and German by Philip Reed and texts inserted.
Sung in English and French.
Disc 1. The Salley gardens -- Little Sir William -- The Bonny Earl o' Moray -- O can ye sew cushions? -- The trees they grow so high -- The ash grove -- Oliver Cromwell -- Greensleeves - I wonder as I wander -- The crocodile -- The plough boy -- There's none to soothe -- Sweet Polly Oliver -- The miller of Dee -- The foggy, foggy dew -- O Waly, Waly -- Come you not from Newcastle? -- Pray Goody -- The brisk young widow -- Sally in our alley -- The Lincolnshire poacher - Early one morning -- Ca' the yowes -- The holly and the ivy -- Soldier, won't you marry me -- The deaf woman's courtship --
Disc 2. Avenging and bright -- Sail on, sail on -- How sweet the answer -- The minstrel boy -- At the mid hour of night -- Rich and rare -- Dear harp of my country -- Oft in the stilly night -- The last rose of summer -- O the sight entrancing -- La Noël passé -- Voici le printemps -- Fileuse -- Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse -- La belle est au jardin d'amour -- Il est quelqu'un sur terre -- Eho! Eho! -- Quand j'étais chez mon père -- I will give my love an apple -- Sailor-boy -- Master Kilby -- The soldier and the sailor -- Bonny at morn -- The shooting of his Dear -- The stream in the valley -- Unidentified folk song setting.
Disc 3. Lord! I married me a wife -- She's like the swallow -- Bonny at morn -- Lemady -- Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn -- Dafydd y Garreg wen -- The false knight upon the road -- Bird scarer's song -- The holly and the ivy -- King Herod and the cock -- The twelve apostles -- The bitter withy -- Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse -- Fileuse -- Eho! Eho! -- La bella est au jardin d'amour -- Quand j'étais chez mon père -- The Salley gardens -- Little Sir William -- The Bonny Earl o' Moray -- O can ye sew cushions? -- Oliver Cromwell -- The plough boy -- O Waly, Waly -- Come you not from Newcastle -- The Salley gardens.
Felicity Lott, soprano ; Philip Langridge, tenor ; Thomas Allen, baritone ; Carlos Bonell, guitar ; Osian Ellis, harp ; Christopher Van Kampen, cello ; Graham Johnson, piano ; The Wenhaston Boys Choir, Christopher Barnett, conductor, David Owen Norris, piano ; BBC Singers , Simon Joly, conductor ; Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford, conductor.

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PUBLISHED
[England] : Collins Classics, p1995.
Year Published: 1995
Description: 3 sound discs (65, 67, 66 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (79 p. ; 12 cm.)
Language: English
Format: CD

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Lott, Felicity.
Langridge, Philip, 1939-
Allen, Thomas, 1944-
Bonell, Carlos.
Ellis, Osian.
Van Kampen, Christopher, 1945-1997.
Johnson, Graham, 1950-
Barnett, Christopher.
Norris, David Owen.
Joly, Simon.
Bedford, Steuart.
Wenhaston Boys Choir.
BBC Singers.
Northern Sinfonia Orchestra.