English Orchestral Songs

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3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6 (more info)
Performed by: City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: Roger Quilter
Conducted by: Richard Hickox
Stephen Varcoe, bass
Graham Johnson, piano
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor
David Willison, piano
Benjamin Luxon, baritone
Recording date: 29-30 September / 1 October 1997


1.   No. 1. Come Away, Death - 2:27
2.   No. 2. O Mistress Mine - 1:13
3.   No. 3. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind - 1:57


Love Blows as the Wind Blows (more info)
Performed by: City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: George Butterworth
Conducted by: Richard Hickox
Stephen Varcoe, bass


4.   No. 1. Love Blows as the Wind Blows - 2:34
5.   No. 2. Life in her Creaking Shoes - 1:50
6.   No. 3. Coming Up From Richmond - 3:45


Song Cycle, Op. 59 (more info)
Performed by: City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: Edward Elgar
Conducted by: Richard Hickox
Stephen Varcoe, bass


7.   Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 6. Twilight - 2:40


Pleading, Op. 48 (more info)
Performed by: City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: Edward Elgar
Conducted by: Richard Hickox
Stephen Varcoe, bass
Maggie Teyte, soprano
Gerald Moore, piano


8.   Pleading, Op. 48, No. 1 - 2:30


Let us garlands bring, Op. 18 (more info)
Performed by: Manitoba Chamber Orchestra City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: Gerald Finzi
Conducted by: Simon Streatfeild Richard Hickox
Stephen Varcoe, bass
Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano
Roderick Williams, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano
Sergej Osadchuk, piano
Russell Braun, baritone


9.   No. 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death - 2:54
10.   No. 2. Who is Silvia? - 1:22
11.   No. 3. Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun - 4:14
12.   No. 4. O Mistress Mine - 1:42
13.   No. 5. It was a Lover and his Lass - 2:30


6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad (more info)
Performed by: City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: George Butterworth
Conducted by: Richard Hickox
Stephen Varcoe, bass
David Willison, piano
Brett Polegato, baritone
Benjamin Luxon, baritone
Roderick Williams, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano


14.   No. 1. Loveliest of Trees - 2:28
15.   No. 2. When I Was One-and-Twenty - 1:02
16.   No. 3. Look Not in My Eyes - 1:52
17.   No. 4. Think No More Lad - 1:08
18.   No. 5. The Lads in Their Hundreds - 1:44
19.   No. 6. Is My Team Ploughing? - 2:59


The House of Life (more info)
Performed by: City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Conducted by: Richard Hickox
Stephen Varcoe, bass
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
Graham Johnson, piano
Felicity Lott, soprano
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
David Willison, piano
Benjamin Luxon, baritone
Roderick Williams, baritone
Frederick Stone, piano
Iain Burnside, piano


20.   No. 1. Love-Sight - 4:10
21.   No. 2. Silent Noon - 3:59
22.   No. 4. Heart's Haven - 4:15


If There Were Dreams to Sell (arr. F. Bye) (more info)
Performed by: City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: John Ireland
Conducted by: Richard Hickox
Stephen Varcoe, bass
Frederick Bye,
Roderick Williams, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano
Recording date: 23-25 July 2007


23.   If There Were Dreams to Sell - 3:05


Hope the Hornblower (arr. F. Bye) (more info)
Performed by: City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: John Ireland
Conducted by: Richard Hickox
Stephen Varcoe, bass
Frederick Bye,


24.   Hope the Hornblower - 1:28

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