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The Very Best of English Song

Label
EMI Classics
Release date
5 Mar 2012
Running length
127 tracks
Running time
386:50

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1 Dame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore - Linden Lea - A Dorset song (1994 - Remaster) 2:52 6
2 Dame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore - Songs Sacred and Profane (2003 Digital Remaster): 4. The Salley Gardens 2:14 1
3 Dame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore - English Lyrics Set II (2003 Digital Remaster): 1. O mistress mine 1:31 3
4 Dame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore - Three Songs Op. 3 (1994 Digital Remaster): 1. Love's Philosophy 1:31 16
5 Sir Thomas Allen/Geoffrey Parsons - Now sleeps the crimson petal Op. 3 No. 2 2:13 1
6 Sir Thomas Allen/Geoffrey Parsons - In summertime on Bredon 3:44 1
7 Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison - Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' (2001 Digital Remaster): I. Loveliest of trees 2:52 1
8 Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison - Down by the Salley Gardens (2001 Digital Remaster) 2:35 4
9 Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison - Black Stitchel (2001 Digital Remaster) 2:10 3
10 Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison - My Own Country (2001 Digital Remaster) 2:34 2
11 Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison - Passing By (2001 Digital Remaster) 2:31 2
12 Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison - Pretty Ring Time (2001 Digital Remaster) 1:16 1
13 Ian Partridge/Janet Craxton - Ten Blake Songs: 5. The Lamb 2:17 2
14 Ian Partridge - Ten Blake Songs: 6. The Shepherd [oboe tacet] 0:56 57
15 Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake - Silent Noon (No. 2 of The House of Life) 4:18 15
16 Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake - Come away, death, Op.6 No. 1 3:02 1
17 Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake - Since we loved, Op.13 No. 7 1:16 1
18 Jonathan Lemalu/Roger Vignoles - Earth and Air and Rain Op. 15: 6. Rollicum-Rorum 2:02 1
19 Jonathan Lemalu/Roger Vignoles - Sea Fever 2:11 2
20 Jonathan Lemalu/Roger Vignoles - Trade Winds (Salt-Water Ballads No. 2) 2:23 2
21 Robert Lloyd/Nina Walker - Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (version with piano) (2003 Digital Remaster): I.… 2:43 0
22 Robert Lloyd/Nina Walker - Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (version with piano) (2003 Digital Remaster): V. The Old… 3:26 0
23 Frederick Harvey/Jack Byfield - Four Indian Love Lyrics: 3. Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar (Kashmiri Song) 3:02 1
24 Dame Janet Baker/Sir Philip Ledger - Bless this House 3:16 1
25 Dame Janet Baker/Sir Philip Ledger - Balulalow (wds Wedderburn brothers after Luther) (1994 Digital Remaster) 1:49 1
26 Robert Tear/André Previn - Tom Bowling 4:20 1
27 Robert Tear/André Previn - Home! Sweet Home! 3:36 2
28 Robert Tear/André Previn - Come into the garden, Maud (1993 Digital Remaster) 4:13 10
29 Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger - Folk Song Arrangement: The Foggy, Foggy Dew (2000 Digital Remaster) 2:24 0
30 Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger - Folk Song Arrangement: The Plough Boy (2000 Digital Remaster) 1:45 0
31 Fenella Fielding/Michael Flanders/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Sir Neville… - Façade - An entertainment with poems by Edith Sitwell (2000 Digital Remaster): 19.… 2:02 1
1 Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré - Greensleeves [solo lute verse at end cut] (1995 Digital Remaster) 2:14 2
2 Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré - Two songs: It was a lover and his lasse (The First Booke of Ayres or Little Short… 3:10 1
3 Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré - Two songs: O mistress mine (attrib. Morley; arr. from The First Booke of Consort… 1:39 2
4 Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré - The Willow Song (Othello) (1995 Digital Remaster) 4:17 1
5 Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré - Where the bee sucks (The Tempest) (1995 Digital Remaster) 1:14 2
6 Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré - Full fathom five (The Tempest) (1995 Digital Remaster) 2:12 1
7 Michael Chance/Fretwork - Lullaby, my sweet little baby [last verse cut] 6:00 1
8 Michael Chance/Christopher Wilson - Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis (Ye sacred muses) 4:09 12
9 Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley - The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: Sorrow, stay! 3:05 5
10 Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley - Can she excuse my wrongs? (The First Booke of Songes or Ayres) 2:32 9
11 Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley - The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: Awake, sweet love (The First Booke of Songes) 2:49 7
12 Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley - Woeful heart (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres) 2:52 6
13 Charles Daniels/David Miller - Shall I sue? (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres) 2:37 2
14 Charles Daniels/David Miller - Me, me and none but me (The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires) 2:11 2
15 Charles Daniels/David Miller - Flow, my tears (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres) 3:50 2
16 Nancy Argenta/Nigel North - King Arthur, Z.628: Fairest isle 2:36 2
17 Nancy Argenta/John Toll - Oedipus, Z.583: Music for a while 3:56 1
18 Nancy Argenta/Paul Nicholson - I attempt from love's sickness to fly, Z.630 2:02 2
19 Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/John Toll - If music be the food of love (1st setting), Z.379 2:06 1
20 Nancy Argenta/Paul Nicholson - Now that the sun hath veiled his light, Z.193 5:24 1
21 Owen Brannigan/Ernest Lush - Yarmouth Fair (1994 Digital Remaster) 1:40 1
22 Owen Brannigan/Gerald Moore - The Smuggler's Song (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:38 3
23 Ian Wallace/Donald Swann - Down Below (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:44 2
24 Ian Wallace/Donald Swann - A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:36 1
25 Ian Wallace/Donald Swann - The Wart Hog (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:48 2
26 Michael Flanders/Donald Swann - The Hippopotamus Song [introduced by Michael Flanders] (1991 Digital Remaster) 4:05 3
1 Dame Janet Baker/London Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli - Sea Pictures, Op.37 (1997 - Remaster): I. Sea Slumber-Song 5:05 4
2 Dame Janet Baker/London Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli - Sea Pictures, Op.37 (1997 - Remaster): II. In Haven (Capri) 2:07 8
3 Dame Janet Baker/London Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli - Sea Pictures, Op.37 (1997 - Remaster): III. Sabbath Morning at Sea 6:21 7
4 Dame Janet Baker/London Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli - Sea Pictures, Op.37 (1997 - Remaster): IV. Where Corals Lie 4:11 2
5 Dame Janet Baker/London Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli - Sea Pictures, Op.37 (1997 - Remaster): V. The Swimmer 6:11 5
6 Sir Thomas Allen/Sir Simon Rattle - Songs of Travel: 1. The Vagabond 3:03 2
7 Sir Thomas Allen/Sir Simon Rattle - Songs of Travel: 2. Let beauty awake 1:41 0
8 Sir Thomas Allen/Sir Simon Rattle - Songs of Travel: 3. The Roadside Fire 2:21 0
9 Sir Thomas Allen/Sir Simon Rattle - Songs of Travel: 4. Youth and Love 3:17 0
10 Sir Thomas Allen/Sir Simon Rattle - Songs of Travel: 5. In Dreams 2:36 0
11 Sir Thomas Allen/Sir Simon Rattle - Songs of Travel: 6. The infinite shining heavens 2:06 0
12 Sir Thomas Allen/Sir Simon Rattle - Songs of Travel: 7. Whither must I wander 3:50 0
13 Sir Thomas Allen/Sir Simon Rattle - Songs of Travel: 8. Bright is the ring of words 1:55 0
14 Sir Thomas Allen/Sir Simon Rattle - Songs of Travel: 9. I have trod the upward and the downward slope 2:10 0
15 Robert Tear/Alan Civil/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Neville Marriner - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: Prologue (horn solo) 1:25 0
16 Robert Tear/Alan Civil/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Neville Marriner - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 1. Pastoral: The day's grown old… 3:44 0
17 Robert Tear/Alan Civil/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Neville Marriner - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 2. Nocturne: The splendour falls on… 3:28 0
18 Robert Tear/Alan Civil/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Neville Marriner - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 3. Elegy: O Rose, thou art sick… 4:30 0
19 Robert Tear/Alan Civil/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Neville Marriner - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 4. Dirge: This ae nighte (anon. 15th… 3:26 0
20 Robert Tear/Alan Civil/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Neville Marriner - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 5. Hymn: Queen and huntress (Ben… 2:02 0
21 Robert Tear/Alan Civil/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Neville Marriner - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: 6. Sonnet: O soft embalmer of the… 4:45 0
22 Robert Tear/Alan Civil/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Neville Marriner - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31: Epilogue (horn solo) 1:38 0
23 Neil Mackie/Scottish Chamber Orchestra/John Tunnell/Steuart Bedford - Folk Song Arrangements [with orch.]: The Bonny Earl o' Moray (Scottish tune) 2:40 0
24 Neil Mackie/Scottish Chamber Orchestra/John Tunnell/Steuart Bedford - Folk Song Arrangements [with orch.]: Oliver Cromwell (nursery rhyme from Suffolk) 0:47 0
1 John Shirley-Quirk/Choir of King's College, Cambridge/English Chamber Orchestra/Sir… - Five Mystical Songs: 1. Easter 5:12 0
2 John Shirley-Quirk/Choir of King's College, Cambridge/English Chamber Orchestra/Sir… - Five Mystical Songs: 2. I got me flowers 2:54 0
3 John Shirley-Quirk/Choir of King's College, Cambridge/English Chamber Orchestra/Sir… - Five Mystical Songs: 3. Love bade me welcome 5:27 0
4 John Shirley-Quirk/English Chamber Orchestra/Sir David Willcocks - Five Mystical Songs (1989 - Remaster): 4. The Call [baritone only] 2:11 1
5 Choir of King's College, Cambridge/English Chamber Orchestra/Sir David Willcocks - Five Mystical Songs (1989 - Remaster): 5. Antiphon [chorus only] 3:20 0
6 Wilfred Brown/English Chamber Orchestra/Christopher Finzi - Dies natalis, Op.8 (1990 Digital Remaster): 1. Intrada - 5:07 0
7 Wilfred Brown/English Chamber Orchestra/Christopher Finzi - Dies natalis, Op.8 (1990 Digital Remaster): 2. Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato) 6:31 1
8 Wilfred Brown/English Chamber Orchestra/Christopher Finzi - Dies natalis, Op.8 (1990 Digital Remaster): 3. The Rapture (Danza) 3:34 0
9 Wilfred Brown/English Chamber Orchestra/Christopher Finzi - Dies natalis, Op.8 (1990 Digital Remaster): 4. Wonder (Arioso) 4:20 0
10 Wilfred Brown/English Chamber Orchestra/Christopher Finzi - Dies natalis, Op.8 (1990 Digital Remaster): 5. The Salutation (Aria) 4:17 0
11 Benjamin Luxon/Bournemouth Symphony Chorus/Geoffrey Hughes/Bournemouth Symphony… - Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (1983 Digital Remaster): I. Drake's Drum (Tempo di… 3:21 0
12 Benjamin Luxon/Bournemouth Symphony Chorus/Geoffrey Hughes/Bournemouth Symphony… - Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (1983 Digital Remaster): II. Outward Bound (Andante… 3:09 0
13 Benjamin Luxon/Bournemouth Symphony Chorus/Geoffrey Hughes/Bournemouth Symphony… - Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (1983 Digital Remaster): III. Devon, O Devon, in Wind… 1:46 0
14 Benjamin Luxon/Bournemouth Symphony Chorus/Geoffrey Hughes/Bournemouth Symphony… - Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (1983 Digital Remaster): IV. Homeward Bound (Andante… 6:53 0
15 Benjamin Luxon/Bournemouth Symphony Chorus/Geoffrey Hughes/Bournemouth Symphony… - Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (1983 Digital Remaster): V. The Old Superb (Allegro… 3:12 0
16 Robert Tear/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Vernon Handley - The Torch Op. 60 No. 1 (1993 Digital Remaster) 2:27 0
17 Robert Tear/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Vernon Handley - The River Op. 60 No. 2 (1993 Digital Remaster) 3:47 0
18 Robert Tear/Vernon Handley - Love blows as the wind blows (1993 Digital Remaster): In the year that's come and… 3:19 0
19 Robert Tear/Vernon Handley - Love blows as the wind blows (1993 Digital Remaster): Life in her creaking shoes - 2:04 0
20 Robert Tear/Vernon Handley - Love blows as the wind blows (1993 Digital Remaster): Coming up from Richmond 4:41 0
1 John Mark Ainsley/Britten Sinfonia/Pauline Lowbury/Nicholas Cleobury - Les Illuminations Op. 18: I. Fanfare 1:54 0
2 John Mark Ainsley/Britten Sinfonia/Pauline Lowbury/Nicholas Cleobury - Les Illuminations Op. 18: II. Villes 2:20 0
3 John Mark Ainsley/Britten Sinfonia/Pauline Lowbury/Nicholas Cleobury - Les Illuminations Op. 18: IIIa. Phrase 0:56 0
4 John Mark Ainsley/Britten Sinfonia/Pauline Lowbury/Nicholas Cleobury - Les Illuminations Op. 18: IIIb. Antique 2:05 0
5 John Mark Ainsley/Britten Sinfonia/Pauline Lowbury/Nicholas Cleobury - Les Illuminations Op. 18: IV. Royauté 1:34 0
6 John Mark Ainsley/Britten Sinfonia/Pauline Lowbury/Nicholas Cleobury - Les Illuminations Op. 18: V. Marine 0:57 0
7 John Mark Ainsley/Britten Sinfonia/Pauline Lowbury/Nicholas Cleobury - Les Illuminations Op. 18: VI. Interlude 2:43 0
8 John Mark Ainsley/Britten Sinfonia/Pauline Lowbury/Nicholas Cleobury - Les Illuminations Op. 18: VII. Being Beauteous 3:54 0
9 John Mark Ainsley/Britten Sinfonia/Pauline Lowbury/Nicholas Cleobury - Les Illuminations Op. 18: VIII. Parade 2:35 0
10 John Mark Ainsley/Britten Sinfonia/Pauline Lowbury/Nicholas Cleobury - Les Illuminations Op. 18: IX. Départ 2:48 0
11 John Noble/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Edmund Walters/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic… - Sea Drift: Once Paumanok - 3:50 0
12 John Noble/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Edmund Walters/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic… - Sea Drift: Shine! shine! shine! - 1:31 0
13 John Noble/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Edmund Walters/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic… - Sea Drift: Till of a sudden - 2:38 0
14 John Noble/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Edmund Walters/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic… - Sea Drift: Blow! blow! blow! 1:57 0
15 John Noble/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Edmund Walters/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic… - Sea Drift: Yes my brother I know - 4:05 0
16 John Noble/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Edmund Walters/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic… - Sea Drift: O rising stars! - 1:36 0
17 John Noble/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Edmund Walters/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic… - Sea Drift: O reckless despairing carols - 6:26 0
18 John Noble/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Edmund Walters/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic… - Sea Drift: O past! O happy life 3:07 0
19 Ian Bostridge/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernard Haitink - On Wenlock Edge: I. On Wenlock Edge 3:52 1
20 Ian Bostridge/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernard Haitink - On Wenlock Edge: II. From far, from eve and morning 2:04 2
21 Ian Bostridge/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernard Haitink - On Wenlock Edge: III. Is my team ploughing? 3:47 2
22 Ian Bostridge/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernard Haitink - On Wenlock Edge: IV. Oh, when I was in love with you 0:44 1
23 Ian Bostridge/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernard Haitink - On Wenlock Edge: V. Bredon Hill 7:38 2
24 Ian Bostridge/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernard Haitink - On Wenlock Edge: VI. Clun 3:23 1
25 Frederick Harvey/Philharmonia Orchestra/George Weldon - In summertime on Bredon [with orch.] 3:10 0
26 Frederick Harvey/Philharmonia Orchestra/George Weldon - Devonshire Cream and Cider [with orch.] 3:55 0

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