Peter Pears, tenor ; Julian Bream, lute (tr. 1-22) ; Benjamin Britten, piano (tr. 23-34). Compact disc. Originally issued on Decca & London analog discs in 1956 (tr. 1-7), 1960 (tr. 8-22) & 1956 (tr. 23-34). Various of the contents appeared on LW 5243 (tr. 1-7), LL 1532, LW 5241, LW 5241, OS 25896 & 5896, Decca Eclipse ECS 545, Serenata SA7, Tr. 1-7 recorded in mono, the remainder in stereo, Booklet with program notes by Hugo Shirley in English ([4] p.) inserted in container.
Contents:
Fair, sweet, cruel / Ford (1:58) -- When Laura smiles / Rosseter (1:37) -- I saw my lady weep / Dowland (4:06) -- It was a lover and his lass / Morley (2:22) -- Awake, sweet love / Dowland (2:35) -- What then is love but mourning / Rosseter (2:48) -- Mistress mine, well may you fare / Morley (1:17) Fine knacks for ladies / Dowland (2:36) -- Sweet come again / Rosseter (3:46) -- Thyrsis and Milla / Morley (2:29) -- Sorrow stay / Dowland (3:48) -- Come Phyllis come / Ford (1:36) -- I saw my lady weeping / Morley (2:58) -- Rest, sweet nymphs / Pilkington (4:29) -- What if my mistress now / Morley (1:34) -- Come let us sound with melody / Campian (1:54) -- Miserere, my maker / anon. (3:30) -- What is a day? / Rosseter (1:52) -- Fair if you expect admiring / Campian (1:20) -- Shall I come sweet love / Campian (2:59) -- If my complaints / Dowland (4:29) -- What if I never speed / Dowland (1:33) Go not, happy day (Tennyson) / Bridge (1:21) -- Is my team ploughing? [from A Shropshire lad] (Housman) / Butterworth (3:45) -- I have twelve oxen (anon.) / Ireland (1:44) -- In youth is pleasure (Wever) / Moeran (2:25) -- Yarmouth Fair (Collins) / Warlock (1:37) -- Persephone : from Twelve songs, op. 48 (Humbert Wolfe) / Holst (1:08) -- How love came in (Herrick) / Lennox Berkeley (1:18) -- Let the florid music praise [from On this island, op. 11] (Auden) / Britten (3:39) -- Three Chinese lyrics [song cycle ; Evangeline Dora Edwards, after anon. Chinese texts]. Herd boy's song ; Fishing ; Pedlar [sic] of spells / Arthur Oldham (2:59) -- Love went a-riding (Mary Coleridge) / Bridge (1:39).
OCLC:
(OCoLC)802857230
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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