A soft day (2:48) ; Irish skies (5:13) / 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 (3:51) ; 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 (:55) ; A long time ago : (Hilliard's shanty) (1:28) / Lord Berners -- Oh dear, what can the matter be? / Arnold Bax (1:36) -- 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) / William Walton -- Beatriz's song / W. Walton (2:51) -- Lay your sleeping head, my love / Lennox Berkeley (5:34) -- 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.
Note
All songs previously released 1993-2004 on Naxos labels.
Includes program notes.
Additional formats (note)
Also available as compact disc; previously issued as Naxos 8.557559--8.557560.
System details (note)
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: MS Windows 98SE, or 2000, or XP; MS Internet Explorer 6.0, Mozilla 1.7.1, FireFox 1PR, Netscape 7.1, or Opera 7.53; and Media Player 9 or 10.
System requirements: Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.5; MS Internet Explorer 5.2, Mozilla 1.7, Netscape 7.1, Opera 7.53, or Safari 1.0; Media Player 9.0. Or, Mac OS 8.6 / 9.0; MS Internet Explorer 5.1; Windows Media Player 7.1.
Title
English song [electronic resource].
Imprint
[Hong Kong] : Naxos Music Library, [2007]
System details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: MS Windows 98SE, or 2000, or XP; MS Internet Explorer 6.0, Mozilla 1.7.1, FireFox 1PR, Netscape 7.1, or Opera 7.53; and Media Player 9 or 10.
System requirements: Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.5; MS Internet Explorer 5.2, Mozilla 1.7, Netscape 7.1, Opera 7.53, or Safari 1.0; Media Player 9.0. Or, Mac OS 8.6 / 9.0; MS Internet Explorer 5.1; Windows Media Player 7.1.
Performer
Bernadette Greevy (1st-2nd and 27th works), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (10th work), Della Jones (53rd work), mezzo-soprano ; Janice Watson (3rd and 5th works), Patricia Rozario (7th work), Susan Gritton (18th work), Lisa Milne (21st-23rd works), Felicity Lott (44th and 48th works), soprano ; Neal Davies (4th and 6th works), Christopher Maltmann (8th-9th,19th, 37th-38th and 43rd works), Simon Keenlyside (14th-15th works), Nik Hancock-Child (32nd-36th works), baritone ; Anthony Rolfe Johnson (11th-13th and 20th works), Philip Langridge (16th-17th, 49th-52nd and 54th works), Adrian Thompson (39th-41st works), Martyn Hill (45th-47th works), Ian Partridge (24-26th works), Richard Edgar-Wilson (28th-31st works), tenor ; Hugh Tinney (1st-2nd works), Steuart Bedford (3rd-6th, 16th-19th and 49th-54th works), Graham Johnson (7th-15th, 20th-23rd and 44th-48th works), Len Vorster (24th-26th works), Eugene Asti (28th-31st works), Rosemary Hancock-Child (32nd-36th works), John Constable (37th-42nd works), piano ; Ivan McCready, cello (23rd work) ; Duke Quartet (10th work).
Additional formats
Also available as compact disc; previously issued as Naxos 8.557559--8.557560.