The Great EMI Recordings - English Songs: Dowland, Purcell, Arne, Parry, Stanford, Walton, Britten
Dame Janet Baker · Various Composers
G. Monro: My lovely Celia
W. Boyce
T. Arne
Where the bee sucks (from "Nine Shakespeare Songs by Thomas Augustine Arne, 1763")
Dame Janet Baker · Martin Isepp · Ambrose Gauntlett · Douglas Whittaker
No. 29, A Dialogue Upon a Kisse, "Among thy fancies tell me this … I shall resolve you"
W. Lawes: A Dialogue between Charon and Philomel
"Charon! O gentle Charon! … What voice so sweet" (Philomel, Charon)
W. Lawes: A Dialogue between Daphne and Strephon
"Come, my Daphne … 'Tis Strephon calls" (Strephon, Daphne)
"Giù nei Tartarei regni v'andrem madonna" (Soprano, Bass)
"Quando in calma ride il mare" (Soprano, Bass)
No. 3, Duet, "Sound the trumpet, sound, till around" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)
No. 2, Song, "My dearest, my fairest" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)
No. 2, Song, "No, resistance is but vain" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)
No. 15, Air, "Shepherd, leave decoying" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)
Sir H. Parry: English Lyrics, Set No. 2
No. 1, O Mistress Mine, "O mistress mine, where are you roaming?" (Allegretto)
Sir H. Parry: English Lyrics, Set No. 5
No. 1, Love's Philosophy, "The fountains mingle with the river" (Very quick and passionate)
J. Ireland: Songs Sacred and Profane
No. 4, The Salley Gardens, "Down by the Salley Gardens" (At speaking pace)
Gurney: The Fields Are Full
W. Busch: Rest
Corpus Christi Carol (Arr. for High Voice of the 5th Variation from "A Boy Was Born", Op. 3)
Robert Burns
No. 1, Orpheus, "Orpheus with his lute made trees" (Allegro moderato)
Sir H. Parry: English Lyrics, Set No. 2
No. 1, O Mistress Mine, "O mistress mine, where are you roaming?" (Allegretto)
R. Vaughan Williams
Bushes and Briars, Roud 1027 (English Folksong from Essex, Unaccompanied Version)
J. Ireland: Songs Sacred and Profane
No. 4, The Salley Gardens, "Down by the Salley Gardens" (At speaking pace)
H. Hughes: Irish Country Songs, Volume I
III. Me soui mesocu danso, "Me suis mis en danse" (after Traditional from Quercy)
Ronald Kinloch Anderson
VIII. Out of the lawn lie in bad (Alto, Chorus)
Dame Janet Baker · London Symphony Chorus · Sheila Armstrong · André Previn · London Symphony Orchestra · St. Clement Danes School Boys' Choir · Robert Tear
"How can I sleep?" (Cressida)
Dame Janet Baker · Lawrence Foster · Orchestra of the Royal Opera House · Elizabeth Bainbridge · Gerald English
"At the haunted end of the day" (Cressida)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House · Dame Janet Baker · Lawrence Foster
"Diomede!... Father!... Pandarus!" (Cressida)
Dame Janet Baker · Lawrence Foster · Orchestra of the Royal Opera House