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The folk songs [sound recording] / Benjamin Britten.

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Main Author: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
Corporate Authors: Wenhaston Boys Choir (Performer), BBC Singers (Performer), Northern Sinfonia (Performer)
Other Authors: Lott, Felicity (Vocalist), Langridge, Philip, 1939-2010 (Vocalist), Allen, Thomas, 1944- (Vocalist), Bonell, Carlos (Instrumentalist), Ellis, Osian (Instrumentalist), Van Kampen, Christopher, 1945-1997 (Instrumentalist), Johnson, Graham, 1950- (Instrumentalist), Barnett, Christopher (Conductor) (Conductor), Norris, David Owen (Instrumentalist), Joly, Simon (Conductor), Bedford, Steuart (Conductor)
Other title:Folk song arrangements (1943-1961)
Format: CD Audio
Language:English
Published: [England] : Collins Classics, ℗1995.
Table of Contents:
  • CD 1. Volume 1, British Isles: The Salley Gardens ; Little Sir William ; The Bonny Earl o' Moray ; O can ye sew cushions? ; The trees they grow so high ; The ash grove ; Oliver Cromwell
  • Unpublished folk songs: Greensleeves ; I wonder as I wander ; The crocodile
  • Volume 3, British Isles: The plough boy ; There's none to soothe ; Sweet Polly Oliver ; The miller of Dee ; The foggy, foggy dew ; O Waly, Waly ; Come you not from Newcastle?
  • Unpublished folk song: Pray Goody
  • Volume 5, British Isles: The brisk young widow ; Sally in our alley ; The Lincolnshire poacher ; Early one morning ; Ca' the yowes
  • Unpublished folk songs: The holly and the ivy ; Soldier, won't you marry me? ; The deaf woman's courtship. CD 2. Volume 4, Moore's Irish melodies: Avenging and bright ; Sail on, sail on ; How sweet the answer ; The minstrel boy ; At the mid hour of night ; Rich and rare ; Dear harp of my country! ; Oft in the stilly night ; The last rose of summer ; O the sight entrancing
  • Volume 2, France: La Noël passé ; Voici le printemps ; Fileuse ; Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse ; La belle est au jardin d'amour ; Il est quelqu'un sur terre ; Eho! Eho! ; Quand j'étais chez mon père
  • Volume 6, England: I will give my love an apple ; Sailor-boy ; Master Kilby ; The soldier and the sailor ; Bonny at morn ; The shooting of his dear
  • Unpublished folk songs: The stream in the valley ; Unidentified folk song setting. CD 3. Eight folk song arrangements for high voice and harp: Lord! I married me a wife ; She's like the swallow ; Bonny at morn ; Lemady ; Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn ; Dafydd y Garreg Wen ; The false knight upon the road ; Bird scarer's song
  • Miscellaneous published folk songs: The holly and the ivy ; King Herod and the cock ; The twelve apostles
  • Unpublished folk song: The bitter withy
  • Orchestral arrangements: Le roi e'en va-t'en chasse ; Fileuse ; Eho! Eho! ; La belle est au jardin d'amour ; Quand j'étais chez mon père ; The Salley Gardens (orchestration for strings) ; Little Sir William ; The bonny Earl o' Moray ; O can ye sew cushions? ; Oliver Cromwell ; The plough boy ; O Waly, Waly ; Come you not from Newcastle? ; The Salley Gardens (orchestration for strings, bassoon and harp)

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