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Label: Hyperion
Release date: April 2004
Total duration: 74 minutes 55 seconds

Tracks

• Sea fever ‘I must go down to the seas again’ [2'11]  John Ireland (1879-1962)
  Thomas Allen (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

• Earth and Air and Rain, Op 15 Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
  No 07: To Lizbie Browne ‘Dear Lizbie Browne’ [4'21]
  Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

• Down by the Salley Gardens [2'15]  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
  Stephen Roberts (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

• I will go with my father a-ploughing [2'43]  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
  Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

• I have twelve oxen [1'47]  John Ireland (1879-1962)
  Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

• Fish in the unruffled lakes [2'47]  Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
  Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

• Orpheus with his lute [2'37]  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
  Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

• Ha’nacker Mill ‘Sally is gone that was so kindly’ [2'22]  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
  Michael George (bass), Clifford Benson (piano)

• Three Shakespeare Songs, Op 6 Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
  No 1: Come away, death [2'59]
  Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

• Five Elizabethan Songs Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
  No 3: Under the greenwood tree [1'41]
  Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

• As ever I saw ‘She is gentle and also wise’ [1'31]  Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
  John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

• From the red rose [1'32]  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
  Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

• Winter Words, Op 52 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
  No 5: The Choirmaster’s Burial ‘The Tenor Man’s Story’ [3'45]
  Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

• Yarmouth fair ‘As I rode down to Yarmouth Fair’ [1'56]  Peter Warlock (1894-1930) & John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
  John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

• June on Castle Hill, Op 13a No 5 [1'47]  Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
  Stephen Roberts (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

• The call of the morning ‘Vale of the waterfalls!’ [1'30]  William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982)
  John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Ian Brown (piano)

• Five eyes, Op 15 No 2 or Op 9 No 3 [1'10]  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)
  Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)

• Charles Augustus Fortescue. who always did what was right, and so accumulated an immense fortune [3'16]  Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
  Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

• Maud Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)
  No 09: Come into the garden, Maud [3'36]
  David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano)

• Go not, happy day [1'07]  Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
  Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

• Songs of Travel Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
  No 2: Let Beauty awake [2'01]
  Christopher Maltman (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

• Song to the Seals [3'58]  Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946)
  Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)

• A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster, Op 140 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
  No 1: A soft day ‘A soft day, thank God!’ [2'13]
  Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

• A Fire of Turf, Op 139 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
  No 5: Blackberry time ‘In blackberry time herself and me’ [2'07]
  Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

• Three Belloc songs Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
  No 3: My own country ‘I shall go without companions’ [2'15]
  Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

• Ann’s cradle song, Op 20 No 1 [2'37]  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)
  Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)

• Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op 3 No 2 [2'01]  Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
  John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

• Armida’s garden ‘I have been there before, O my love!’ [2'07]  Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
  Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

• Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad George Butterworth (1885-1916)
  No 5: The lads in their hundreds [2'02]
  Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

• The clown’s songs from ‘Twelfth night’, Op 65 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
  No 3: The rain it raineth every day ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’ [1'26]
  Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

• If it’s ever spring again [1'03]  Robin Milford (1903-1959)
  Ian Partridge (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)

• To Gratiana dancing and singing ‘See! with what constant motion’ [4'12]  William Denis Browne (1888-1915)
  Martyn Hill (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)