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A Soft Day (more info)
Composed by: Charles Villiers Stanford
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
Bernadette Greevy, mezzo-soprano
Hugh Tinney, piano
Frederick Stone, piano
Recording date: 5 June 1952


1.   A Soft Day - 2:48


Irish Skies (more info)
Composed by: Charles Villiers Stanford
Bernadette Greevy, mezzo-soprano
Hugh Tinney, piano


2.   Irish Skies - 5:13


Cherry Ripe (more info)
Composed by: Liza Lehmann
Steuart Bedford, piano
Janice Watson, soprano
Recording date: 1-3 April 1997


3.   Cherry Ripe - 2:42


The Daisy-Chain (more info)
Composed by: Liza Lehmann
Graham Johnson, piano
Felicity Lott, soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, contralto
Janice Watson, soprano
Steuart Bedford, piano
Toby Spence, tenor
Neal Davies, baritone


4.   Mustard and Cress - 1:52


The Lily of a Day (more info)
Composed by: Liza Lehmann
Janice Watson, soprano
Steuart Bedford, piano
Recording date: 1-3 April 1997


5.   The Lily of a Day - 2:37


Henry King (more info)
Composed by: Liza Lehmann
Steuart Bedford, piano
Neal Davies, baritone


6.   Henry King - 3:21


Fain would I change that note (more info)
Composed by: Arthur Somervell
Graham Johnson, piano
Patricia Rozario, soprano


7.   Fain would I change that note - 3:07


In summer-time on Bredon (more info)
Composed by: Arthur Somervell
Christopher Maltman, baritone
Graham Johnson, piano


8.   In summer-time on Bredon - 3:56


The lads in their hundreds (more info)
Composed by: Arthur Somervell
Graham Johnson, piano
Christopher Maltman, baritone


9.   The lads in their hundreds - 2:54


Among the rocks (more info)
Composed by: Arthur Somervell
Graham Johnson, piano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, contralto


10.   Among the rocks - 3:30


It was a Lover and his Lass (more info)
Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Graham Johnson, piano
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor
Simon Keenlyside, baritone


11.   It was a lover and his lass - 1:53


4 Poems by Fredegond Shove (more info)
Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Graham Johnson, piano
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
David Willison, piano
Benjamin Luxon, baritone
Roderick Williams, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano


12.   The Water Mill - 4:02


On Wenlock Edge (more info)
Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Graham Johnson, piano
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor
Mark Padmore, tenor


13.   On Wenlock Edge - 3:51


The Call (more info)
Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Graham Johnson, piano
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Oliver Lepage-Dean, treble


14.   The Call - 2:17


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


15.   Silent Noon - 4:38


12 Songs, Op. 48 (more info)
Composed by: Gustav Holst
Philip Langridge, tenor
Steuart Bedford, piano
Recording date: 5-7 May 1998


16.   Now in these fairylands - 1:26
17.   The dream-city - 3:17


4 Songs, Op. 4 (more info)
Composed by: Gustav Holst
Steuart Bedford, piano
Susan Gritton, soprano


18.   Margrete's Cradle Song - 2:45


The heart worships (more info)
Composed by: Gustav Holst
Steuart Bedford, piano
Christopher Maltman, baritone
Recording date: 5-7 May 1998


19.   The Heart Worships - 3:14


5 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23 (more info)
Composed by: Roger Quilter
Graham Johnson, piano
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor
Lisa Milne, soprano
Amanda Pitt, soprano
Joanne Thomas, mezzo-soprano
David Owen Norris, piano


20.   Take, O take those lips away - 1:26


3 Songs, Op. 3 (more info)
Composed by: Roger Quilter
Maggie Teyte, soprano
Richard Crooks, tenor
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
Alfred Tennyson,
Graham Johnson, piano
Felicity Lott, soprano
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor
Lisa Milne, soprano
David Willison, piano
Gerald Moore, piano
Benjamin Luxon, baritone
Phyllis Spurr, piano
Frederick Schauwecker, piano
Penelope Martin-Smith, soprano
Martin Souter, piano
Recording date: 10 December 1951


21.   Now sleeps the crimson petal - 2:26


Love calls through the summer night (more info)
Composed by: Roger Quilter
Graham Johnson, piano
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor
Lisa Milne, soprano
Recording date: 29-30 September / 1 October 1997


22.   Love calls through the summer night - 5:30


3 Pastoral Songs, Op. 22 (more info)
Composed by: Roger Quilter
Graham Johnson, piano
Lisa Milne, soprano
Louisa Fuller, violin
Ivan McCready, cello
Recording date: 29-30 September / 1 October 1997


23.   I will go with my father a-ploughing - 2:26


The Rio Grande, "Capstan Shanty" (more info)
Composed by: Lord (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson) Berners
Ian Partridge, tenor
Len Vorster, piano


24.   The Rio Grande (Capstan Shanty) - 2:34


Theodore, or the Pirate King (more info)
Composed by: Lord (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson) Berners
Len Vorster, piano
Ian Partridge, tenor


25.   Theodore, or the Pirate King - 0:55


3 Songs (more info)
Composed by: Lord (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson) Berners
Len Vorster, piano
Ian Partridge, tenor


26.   A Long Time Ago (Hilliard's Shanty) - 1:28


O dear! what can the matter be? (more info)
Composed by: Traditional Arnold Bax
Bernadette Greevy, mezzo-soprano
Hugh Tinney, piano


27.   Oh dear, what can the matter be? - 1:36

The Grenadier (more info)
Composed by: Eric Coates
Eugene Asti, piano
Richard Edgar-Wilson, tenor


1.   The Grenadier - 3:21


The Young Lover (more info)
Composed by: Eric Coates
Eugene Asti, piano
Richard Edgar-Wilson, tenor


2.   The Young Lover - 2:59


Betty and Johnny (more info)
Composed by: Eric Coates
Eugene Asti, piano
Richard Edgar-Wilson, tenor


3.   Betty and Johnny - 2:12


Rise up and Reach the Stars (more info)
Composed by: Eric Coates
Eugene Asti, piano
Richard Edgar-Wilson, tenor


4.   Rise up and reach the stars - 1:39


2 Songs, Op. 14 (more info)
Composed by: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Rosemary Hancock-Child, piano
Nik Hancock-Child, baritone
Recording date: July 1990 & July 1991


5.   The Bells - 3:01


Crossings, Op. 20 (more info)
Composed by: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Rosemary Hancock-Child, piano
Nik Hancock-Child, baritone
Recording date: July 1990 & July 1991


6.   Ann's Cradle Song - 3:21


As I Lay in the Early Sun (more info)
Composed by: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Rosemary Hancock-Child, piano
Nik Hancock-Child, baritone
Recording date: July 1990 & July 1991


7.   As I Lay in the Early Sun - 1:49


The Cherry Tree (more info)
Composed by: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Rosemary Hancock-Child, piano
Nik Hancock-Child, baritone


8.   The Cherry Tree - 2:31


Nightfall (more info)
Composed by: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Rosemary Hancock-Child, piano
Nik Hancock-Child, baritone
Recording date: July 1990 & July 1991


9.   Dusk - 1:31


Peter Warlock's Fancy (more info)
Composed by: Peter Warlock
John Constable, harpsichord
Christopher Maltman, baritone


10.   Peter Warlock's Fancy - 2:12


The Frostbound Wood (more info)
Composed by: Peter Warlock
John Constable, harpsichord
Christopher Maltman, baritone
Recording date: 3,4 & 11 February 1997


11.   The frostbound wood - 3:05


Peterisms, Set I (more info)
Composed by: Peter Warlock
John Constable, harpsichord
Adrian Thompson, tenor
Recording date: 3,4 & 11 February 1997


12.   Chopcherry - 1:04
13.   A Sad Song - 2:09
14.   Ruttekin - 1:08


Bethlehem Down (more info)
Composed by: Peter Warlock
John Constable, harpsichord
Christopher Maltman, baritone
Recording date: 3,4 & 11 February 1997


15.   Bethlehem Down - 4:36


Wapping Old Stairs (more info)
Composed by: William Walton
Graham Johnson, piano
Felicity Lott, soprano


16.   Wapping Old Stairs - 2:23


3 Facade Settings (more info)
Composed by: William Walton
Graham Johnson, piano
Martyn Hill, tenor
Felicity Lott, soprano
Recording date: 2nd - 3rd October 1996 and 1st - 2nd May, 1997


17.   Long Steel Grass - 2:31
18.   Tango - Pasodoble - 2:09
19.   Popular Song - 2:14


Beatriz's Song (more info)
Composed by: William Walton
Graham Johnson, piano
Felicity Lott, soprano
Recording date: 2nd - 3rd October 1996 and 1st - 2nd May, 1997


20.   Beatriz's Song - 2:51


7 Songs, Op. 14, No. 2 (text by W.H. Auden) (more info)
Composed by: Lennox Berkeley
Philip Langridge, tenor
Steuart Bedford, piano
Recording date: September 1997


21.   Lay your sleeping head, my love - 5:34


Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 5, "British Isles" (more info)
Composed by: Traditional Benjamin Britten
Graham Johnson, piano
Felicity Lott, soprano
Philip Langridge, tenor
Steuart Bedford, piano
Gerald Finley, baritone
Stephen Ralls, piano


22.   Early One Morning - 3:23


Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles" (more info)
Performed by: Northern Sinfonia
Composed by: Traditional Benjamin Britten
Judy Loman, harp
Graham Johnson, piano
Felicity Lott, soprano
Philip Langridge, tenor
David Willison, piano
Steuart Bedford, piano
Benjamin Luxon, baritone
Gerald Finley, baritone
Rudolf Jansen, piano
Edith Wiens, soprano
Stephen Ralls, piano


23.   The foggy, foggy dew - 2:38


On This Island, Op. 11 (more info)
Composed by: Benjamin Britten
Philip Langridge, tenor
Steuart Bedford, piano
Camilla Nylund, soprano
Marita Viitasalo, piano
Recording date: September 1997


24.   Now the leaves are falling fast - 2:00


Johnny (more info)
Composed by: Benjamin Britten Rudi Spring
Steuart Bedford, piano
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
Salome Kammer, vocals


25.   Tell me the truth about love - 5:41


Winter Words, Op. 52 (more info)
Composed by: Benjamin Britten
Thomas Hardy,
Philip Langridge, tenor
Steuart Bedford, piano
Recording date: 16 -18 December 1995 and 22 January 1996


26.   The Choirmaster's Burial - 4:05

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