Songs, primarliy with piano accompaniment. Various performers. All songs previously released 1993-2004 on Naxos labels. Compact discs. Program notes by Keith Anderson in and texts in English (28 pages) inserted in container.
Contents:
CD 1. A soft day (2:48) ; Irish skies (5:130 / Charles Villiers Stanford -- Cherry ripe (2:42) ; Mustard and cress (1:52) ; The lily of a day (2:37) ; Henry King (3:21) / Liza Lehmann -- Fain would I change that note (3:07) ; In summer-time on Bredon (3;56) ; The lads in their hundreds (2:54) ; Among the rocks (3:30) / Arthur Somervell -- It was a lover and his lass (1:53) ; The water mill (4:02) ; On wenlock edge (3:510 ; The call (2:17) ; Silent noon (4:38) / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Now in these fairylands (1:26) ; The dream-city (3:17) ; Margrete's cradle song (2:45) ; The heart worships (3:14) / Gustav Holst -- Take, O take those lips away (1:26) ; Now sleeps the crimson petal (2:26) ; Love calls through the summer night (5:30) ; I will go with my father a-ploughing (2:26) / Roger Quilter -- The Rio Grande (Capstan shanty) (2:34) ; Theodore, or the pirate king (0:550 ; A long time ago (Hilliard's shanty) (1:28) / Lord Berners -- Oh dear, what can the matter be? / Arnold Bax (1:36) -- CD 2. The grenadier (3:21) ; The young lover (2:59) ; Betty and Johnny (2:12) ; Rise up and reach the stars (1:39) / Eric Coates -- The bells (3:01) ; Ann's cradle song (3:21) ; As I lay in the early sun (1:49) ; The cherry tree (2:31) ; Dusk (1:31) / Cecil Armstrong Gibbs -- Peter Warlock's fancy (2:12) ; The frostbound wood (3:05) ; Chopcherry (1:04) ; A sad song (2:09) ; Rutterkin (1:08) ; Bethlehem down (4:36) / Peter Warlock -- Wapping old stairs (2:23) ; Three façade settings. Long steel grass (2:31) ; Tango- Pasodoble (2:09) ; Popular song (2:14) ; Beatriz's song (2:51) / William Walton -- Lay your sleeping head, my love (5:34) / Lennox Berkeley -- Early one morning (3:23) ; The foggy, foggy dew (2:38) ; Now the leaves are falling fast (2:00) ; Tell me the truth about love (5:41) ; The choirmaster's burial (4:05) / Benjamin Britten.
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