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Tracks

Disc 1:

Elgar: Sea Pictures Op. 37 (1997 Digital Remaster)
1. I Sea Slumber-Song (Roden Noel) 5:40
2. II In Haven (Capri) (C. Alice Elgar) 2:60
3. III Sabbath Morning at Sea (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) 6:19
4. IV Where Corals Lie (Richard Garnett) 4:11
5. V. The Swimmer (A. Lindsay Gordon) 6:80

Vaughan Williams:Songs of Travel
6. The Vagabond      3:20
7. Let beauty awake      1:41
8. The Roadside Fire      2:20
9. Youth and Love      3:17
10. In Dreams      2:36
11. The infinite shining heavens      2:60
12. Whither must I wander      3:49
13. Bright is the ring of words      1:55
14. I have trod the upward and the downward slope      2:30

Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster):
15 Prologue (horn solo) 1:24
16 Pastoral: The day’s grown old (Charles Cotton) 3:44
17 Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) 3:28
18 Elegy: O Rose, thou art sick (William Blake) 4:30
19 Dirge: This ae nighte (anon. 15th century) 3:25
20 Hymn: Queen and huntress (Ben Jonson) 2:20
21 Sonnet: O soft embalmer of the still midnight (John Keats) [horn tacet] 4:45
22 Epilogue (horn solo) 1:33

Folk Song Arrangements [with orch.]:
23 The Bonny Earl o’ Moray (Scottish tune)      2:40
24 Oliver Cromwell (nursery rhyme from Suffolk)      0:47

Disc 2:

Five Mystical Songs (1989 Digital Remaster):

1. Easter  5:10
2. I got me flowers 2:54
3. Love bade me welcome  5:26
4. The Call [baritone only]  2:90
5. Antiphon [chorus only]  3:17
6    Dies natalis Op. 8 (1964 Digital Remaster):

6. Intrada  5:70
7. Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato)   6:30
8. The Rapture (Danza)  3:33
9. Wonder (Arioso)  4:19
10. The Salutation (Aria) (1964 Digital Remaster)      4:13

Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (1983 Digital Remaster):
11    I. Drake’s Drum (Tempo di marcia moderato) (1983 Digital Remaster)      3:21
12   II. Outward Bound (Andante espressivo) (1983 Digital Remaster)      3:90
13   III. Devon, O Devon, in Wind and Rain (Allegro con fuoco) (1983 Digital Remaster)      1:46
14   IV. Homeward Bound (Andante tranquillo) (1983 Digital Remaster)      6:52
15   V. The Old Superb (Allegro vivace) (1983 Digital Remaster)      3:70
16   The Torch Op. 60 No. 1 (1980 Digital Remaster)      2:27
17   The River Op. 60 No. 2 (1980 Digital Remaster)      3:40

Love blows as the wind blows (1980 Digital Remaster):
18    In the year that’s come and gone – (1980 Digital Remaster)      3:17
19    Life in her creaking shoes – (1980 Digital Remaster)      2:30
20   Coming up from Richmond (1980 Digital Remaster)      4:41

Disc 3:

Les Illuminations Op. 18:

1. I. Fanfare      1:53
2   II. Villes      2:20
3    IIIa. Phrase      0:55
4    IIIb. Antique      2:40
5    IV. Royauté      1:34
6    V. Marine      0:57
7    VI. Interlude      2:43
8    VII. Being Beauteous      3:54
9    VIII. Parade      2:34
10   IX. Départ      2:44

Sea Drift (1974 Digital Remaster):
11    Once Paumanok – (1994 Digital Remaster)      3:49
12   Shine! shine! shine! – (1994 Digital Remaster)      1:30
13   Till of a sudden – (1994 Digital Remaster)      2:37
14   Blow! blow! blow! (1994 Digital Remaster)      1:57
15   Sea Drift (1974 Digital Remaster): Yes my brother I know – (1994 Digital Remaster)      4:50
16   Sea Drift (1974 Digital Remaster): O rising stars! – (1994 Digital Remaster)      1:36
17   Sea Drift (1974 Digital Remaster): O reckless despairing carols – (1994 Digital Remaster)      6:25
18   Sea Drift (1974 Digital Remaster): O past! O happy life (1994 Digital Remaster)      3:20

On Wenlock Edge:
19   I. On Wenlock Edge      3:52
20   On Wenlock Edge: II. From far, from eve and morning      2:40
21   On Wenlock Edge: III. Is my team ploughing?      3:47
22   On Wenlock Edge: IV. Oh, when I was in love with you      0:44
23   On Wenlock Edge: V. Bredon Hill      7:37
24   On Wenlock Edge: VI. Clun      3:21
25   In summertime on Bredon [with orch.] (1963 Digital Remaster)      3:90
26   Devonshire Cream and Cider [with orch.] (1963 Digital Remaster)      3:55

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