Janet Baker / Barbirolli / Emma Kirkby - Purcell / Vaughan Williams / Britten: The Very Best Of English Song (CD)

Benjamin Britten, William Byrd, Frederick Delius, Sir Edward Elgar, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Henry Purcell, Charles Villiers Stanford, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir William Walton, Thomas Allen, Janet Baker, Ian Bostridge, Alfred Deller, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Robert Tear — The Very Best Of English Song
Format: CD • Label: EMI Classics (50999 6 80513 2 7) • Released: 2012 • Pressing: UK • Genre: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern

Tracklist:
1-1. Linden Lea—A Dorset Song
1-2. The Salley Gardens
1-3. O Mistress Mine (English Lyrics Set II No. 1)
1-4. Love’s Philosophy Op.3 No.1
1-5. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal Op.3 No.2
1-6. Bredon Hill
1-7. Loveliest Of Trees (A Shropshire Lad No.1)
1-8. Down By The Salley Gardens
1-9. Black Stitchel
1-10. My Own Country
1-11. Passing By
1-12. Pretty Ring Time
1-13. The Lamb (Ten Blake Songs No.5)
1-14. The Shepherd (Ten Blake Songs No.6)
1-15. Silent Noon (The House of Life No.2)
1-16. Come Away, Death Op.6 No.1
1-17. Since We Loved (Oh Fair To See No.7)
1-18. Rollicum-rorum (Earth And Air And Rain No.6)
1-19. Sea Fever
1-20. Trade Winds (Salt-Water Ballads No.2)
1-21. Drake’s Drum (Songs Of The Sea No.1)
1-22. The Old Superb (Songs Of The Sea No.5)
1-23. Kashmiri Song (Four Indian Love-Lyrics No.3)
1-24. Bless This House
1-25. Balulalow
1-26. Tom Bowling
1-27. Home! Sweet Home!
1-28. Come Into The Garden, Maud
1-29. The Foggy, Foggy Dew
1-30. The Plough Boy
1-31. Envoi
2-1. Greensleeves
2-2. It Was A Lover And His Lass
2-3. O Mistress Mine
2-4. The Willow Song
2-5. Where The Bee Sucks
2-6. Full Fathom Five
2-7. Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby
2-8. Elegy On The Death Of Thomas Tallis: Ye Sacred Muses
2-9. Sorrow, Stay! (Second Book Of Songs)
2-10. Can She Excuse My Wrongs? (First Book Of Songs)
2-11. Awake, Sweet Love (First Book Of Songs)
2-12. Woeful Heart (Second Book Of Songs)
2-13. Shall I Sue? (Second Book Of Songs)
2-14. Me, Me And None But Me (Third And Last Book Of Songs)
2-15. Flow, My Tears (Second Book Of Songs)
2-16. Fairest Isle
2-17. Music For A While
2-18. I Attempt From Love’s Sickness
2-19. If Music Be The Food Of Love Z379 No.1
2-20. An Evening Hymn: Now That The Sun Hath Veiled His Light Z193
2-21. Yarmouth Fair
2-22. The Smuggler’s Song
2-23. Down Below
2-24. A Transport Of Delight
2-25. The Wart Hog
2-26. The Hippopotamus Song (Live At The Fortune Theatre, London, 2 May 1959)
3-1. Sea Pictures Op.37
3-2. II. In Haven (Capri)
3-3. III. Sabbath Morning At Sea
3-4. IV. Where Corals Lie
3-5. V. The Swimmer
3-6. Songs Of Travel
3-7. 2. Let Beauty Awake
3-8. 3. The Roadside Fire
3-9. 4. Youth And Love
3-10. 5. In Dreams
3-11. 6. The Infinite Shining Heavens
3-12. 7. Whither Must I Wander
3-13. 8. Bright Is The Ring Of Words
3-14. 9. I Have Trod The Upward And The Downward Slope
3-15. Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings Op.31
3-16. 1. Pastoral: The Day’s Grown Old
3-17. 2. Nocturne: The Splendour Fails On Castle Walls
3-18. 3. Elegy: O Rose, Thou Art Sick
3-19. 4. Dirge: This Ae Nighte
3-20. 5. Hymn: Queen And Huntress
3-21. 6. Sonnet: O Soft Embalmer Of The Still Midnight
3-22. Epilogue
3-23. The Bonny Earl O’Morray (Scottish Tune)
3-24. Oliver Cromwell (Nursery Rhyme From Suffolk)
4-1. Five Mystical Songs
4-2. 2. I Got Me Flowers
4-3. 3. Love Bade Me Welcome
4-4. 4. The Call
4-5. 5. Antiphon
4-6. Dies Natalis Op.8
4-7. 2. Rhapsody (Recitativo Stromentato)
4-8. 3. The Rapture (Danza)
4-9. 4. Wonder (Arioso)
4-10. 5. The Salutation (Aria)
4-11. Songs Of The Sea Op.91
4-12. 2. Outward Bound
4-13. 3. Devon, O Devon, In Wind And Rain
4-14. 4. Homeward Bound
4-15. 5. The Old Superb
4-16. Two Songs Op.60
4-17. 2. The River
4-18. Love Blows As The Wind Blows
4-19. Life In Her Creaking Shoes—
4-20. Coming Up From Richmond
5-1. Les Illuminations Op.18
5-2. II. Villes
5-3. IIIa. Phrase
5-4. IIIb. Antique
5-5. IV. Royauté
5-6. V. Marine
5-7. VI. Interlude
5-8. VII. Being Beauteous
5-9. VIII. Parade
5-10. IX. Départ
5-11. Sea Drift
5-12. Shine! Shine! Shine!—
5-13. Till Of A Sudden—
5-14. Blow! Blow! Blow!—
5-15. Yes My Brother I Know—
5-16. O Rising Stars!—
5-17. O Reckless Despairing Carols—
5-18. O Past! O Happy Life!
5-19. On Wenlock Edge
5-20. 2. From Far, From Eve And Morning
5-21. 3. Is My Team Ploughing
5-22. 4. Oh, When I Was In Love With You
5-23. 5. Bredon Hill
5-24. 6. Clun
5-25. In Summertime On Bredon
5-26. Devonshire Cream And Cider

Imported from the UK.