Favourite English Songs
MAUDE VALÉRIE WHITE
(1855-1937)
1.
So we'll go no more a-roving
4:38
Words by Lord Byron
SIR EDWARD ELGAR (1857 – 1934)
(1857-1934)
2.
Queen Mary's Song
4:29
Words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
THOMAS DUNHILL
(1877-1946)
3.
The Cloths of Heaven. Op. 30 No. 3
2:29
from The Wind among the Reeds
Words by W.B. Yeats
ROGER QUILTER
(1877-1953)
4.
Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1
1:24
from Three Songs
Words by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
(1872-1958)
from The House of Life
Words by D.G. Rosetti
DOROTHY HOGBEN
(dates unknown)
Words by Lawrence Atkinson
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
(1913-1976)
7.
Fish in the unruffled lakes
3:08
Words by W.H. Auden
SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
(1903-1989)
8.
O lurcher-loving collier, Op. 53 No. 2
2:30
from Five Poems by W.H. Auden
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
from British Folk Songs, Volume 3 No. 6
Folksong from Somerset
PERCY GRAINGER
(1882-1961)
10.
The Sprig of Thyme
2:32
Folksong from Lincolnshire
GEOFFREY BUSH
(1920-1998)
11.
Sigh no more, ladies
1:56
from Eight Songs for High Voice
Words by William Shakespeare
HERBERT HOWELLS
(1892-1983)
12.
Come Sing and Dance
3:52
Words from an old carol
Words by Sir Henry Newbolt
FRANK BRIDGE
(1879-1941)
14.
Go not, happy day
1:22
Words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
PETER WARLOCK
(1894-1930)
from Three Belloc Songs
Words by Hilaire Belloc
CECIL ARMSTRONG GIBBS
(1889-1960)
16.
Silver, Op. 30 No. 2
3:16
Words by Walter de la Mare
GRAHAM PEEL
(1877-1960)
17.
The Early Morning
1:28
Words by Hilaire Belloc
MICHAEL HEAD
(1900-1976)
18.
Sweet Chance, that led my steps abroad
2:17
from Songs of the Countryside
Words by W.H. Davies
LIZA LEHMANN
(1862-1918)
from The Daisy-Chain
Words by R.L. Stevenson
GERALD HUGH TYRWHITT-WILSON
(1883-1950)
Lord Berners
20.
Red Roses and Red Noses
2:23
Words by Lord Berners
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
21.
Come you not from Newcastle?
1:06
from Hullah's Song-Book (English)
WILLIAM WALTON
(1902-1983)
Words by Dame Edith Sitwell
Solo: Graham Johnson piano