‎The Very Best of English Song by Various Artists

Linden Lea - A Dorset song (1994 - Remaster)

Dame Janet Baker, Gerald Moore

2:51

4. The Salley Gardens

Gerald Moore, Dame Janet Baker

2:14

1. O mistress mine

Gerald Moore, Dame Janet Baker

1:32

1. Love's Philosophy

Dame Janet Baker, Gerald Moore

1:32

Now sleeps the crimson petal Op. 3 No. 2

Sir Thomas Allen, Geoffrey Parsons

2:12

In summertime on Bredon

Geoffrey Parsons, Sir Thomas Allen

3:44

I. Loveliest of trees

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison

2:51

Down by the Salley Gardens (2001 Digital Remaster)

David Willison, Anthony Rolfe Johnson

2:34

Black Stitchel (2001 Digital Remaster)

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison

2:10

My Own Country (2001 Digital Remaster)

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison

2:34

Passing By (2001 Digital Remaster)

David Willison, Anthony Rolfe Johnson

2:30

Pretty Ring Time (2001 Digital Remaster)

David Willison, Anthony Rolfe Johnson

1:18

5. The Lamb

Janet Craxton, Ian Partridge

2:16

6. The Shepherd [oboe tacet]

Ian Partridge, Janet Craxton

0:56

Silent Noon (No. 2 of The House of Life)

Julius Drake, Ian Bostridge

4:15

Come away, death, Op.6 No. 1

Julius Drake, Ian Bostridge

3:02

Since we loved, Op.13 No. 7

Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake

1:17

6. Rollicum-Rorum

Jonathan Lemalu, Roger Vignoles

2:01

Sea Fever

Jonathan Lemalu, Roger Vignoles

2:11

Trade Winds (Salt-Water Ballads No. 2)

Jonathan Lemalu, Roger Vignoles

2:23

I. Drake's Drum (Tempo di marcia moderato)

Nina Walker, Robert Lloyd

2:43

V. The Old Superb (Allegro vivace)

Nina Walker, Robert Lloyd

3:25

3. Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar (Kashmiri Song)

Jack Byfield, Frederick Harvey

3:01

Bless this House

Sir Philip Ledger, Dame Janet Baker

3:16

Balulalow (wds Wedderburn brothers after Luther)

Dame Janet Baker, Sir Philip Ledger

1:49

Tom Bowling

André Previn, Robert Tear

4:19

Home! Sweet Home!

Robert Tear, André Previn

3:36

Come into the garden, Maud (1993 Digital Remaster)

André Previn, Robert Tear

4:12

The Foggy, Foggy Dew (2000 Digital Remaster)

Sir Philip Ledger, Robert Tear

2:24

The Plough Boy (2000 Digital Remaster)

Robert Tear, Sir Philip Ledger

1:50

19. Popular Song

Neville Marriner, Fenella Fielding, Michael Flanders, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

2:00

Greensleeves [solo lute verse at end cut] (1995 Digital Remaster)

Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré

2:10

It was a lover and his lasse (The First Booke of Ayres or Little Short Songs) (As you like it)

Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré

3:10

O mistress mine (attrib. Morley; arr. from The First Booke of Consort Lessons) (Twelfth Night)

Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré

1:39

The Willow Song (Othello) (1995 Digital Remaster)

Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré

4:16

Where the bee sucks (The Tempest) (1995 Digital Remaster)

Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré

1:14

Full fathom five (The Tempest) (1995 Digital Remaster)

Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré

2:12

Lullaby, my sweet little baby [last verse cut]

Michael Chance, Fretwork

5:59

Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis (Ye sacred muses)

Christopher Wilson, Michael Chance, Julia Hodgson, William Hunt, Richard Campbell, Fretwork, Richard Boothby, Wendy Gillespie

4:08

Sorrow, stay!

Dame Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley

3:04

Can she excuse my wrongs? (The First Booke of Songes or Ayres)

Anthony Rooley, Dame Emma Kirkby, Taverner Consort, Consort of Musicke, Tessa Bonner, London Baroque, Andrew Parrott, Taverner Consort, Choir & Players, Charles Medlam

2:31

Awake, sweet love (The First Booke of Songes)

Dame Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley

2:48

Woeful heart (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)

Dame Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley

2:51

Shall I sue? (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)

Charles Daniels, David Miller

2:36

Me, me and none but me (The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires)

Charles Daniels, David Miller

2:11

Flow, my tears (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)

Charles Daniels, David Miller

3:51

Fairest isle

Nancy Argenta, Nigel North

2:36

Music for a while

Nancy Argenta, John Toll

3:55

I attempt from love's sickness to fly, Z.630

Nancy Argenta, Paul Nicholson

2:02

If music be the food of love (1st setting), Z.379

Nancy Argenta, John Toll, Richard Boothby

2:05

Now that the sun hath veiled his light, Z.193

Nancy Argenta, Paul Nicholson

5:27

Yarmouth Fair (1994 Digital Remaster)

Owen Brannigan, Ernest Lush

1:40

The Smuggler's Song (2003 - Remaster)

Gerald Moore, Owen Brannigan

3:37

Down Below (2003 - Remaster)

Ian Wallace, Donald Swann

2:44

A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) (2003 - Remaster)

Donald Swann, Ian Wallace

2:36

The Wart Hog (2003 - Remaster)

Ian Wallace, Donald Swann, Micheal Flanders

3:48

The Hippopotamus Song [introduced by Michael Flanders] (1991 Digital Remaster)

Donald Swann, Michael Flanders

4:02

Dame Janet Baker

Mezzo-Soprano
Gerald Moore

Vocals, Piano
Sir Thomas Allen

Baritone
Geoffrey Parsons

Piano
Anthony Rolfe Johnson

Tenor

The Very Best of English Song

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