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  • Audio CD (2 Jun 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: EMI Classics
  • ASIN: B00009KPH5
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,604 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

Extraits
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Linden Lea - A Dorset songDame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore 2:51£0.69
Listen  2. Songs Sacred and Profane (2003 Digital Remaster): 4. The Salley GardensDame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore 2:14£0.69
Listen  3. English Lyrics Set II (2003 Digital Remaster): 1. O mistress mineDame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore 1:32£0.69
Listen  4. Three Songs Op. 3 (1994 Digital Remaster): 1. Love's PhilosophyDame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore 1:32£0.69
Listen  5. Now sleeps the crimson petal Op. 3 No. 2Sir Thomas Allen/Geoffrey Parsons 2:13£0.69
Listen  6. In summertime on BredonSir Thomas Allen/Geoffrey Parsons 3:44£0.69
Listen  7. Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' (2001 Digital Remaster): I. Loveliest of treesAnthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 2:51£0.69
Listen  8. Down by the Salley Gardens (2001 Digital Remaster)Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 2:34£0.69
Listen  9. Black Stitchel (2001 Digital Remaster)Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 2:10£0.69
Listen10. My Own Country (2001 Digital Remaster)Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 2:34£0.69
Listen11. Passing By (2001 Digital Remaster)Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 2:30£0.69
Listen12. Pretty Ring Time (2001 Digital Remaster)Anthony Rolfe Johnson/David Willison 1:17£0.69
Listen13. Ten Blake Songs: 5. The LambIan Partridge/Janet Craxton 2:16£0.69
Listen14. Ten Blake Songs: 6. The Shepherd [oboe tacet]Ian Partridge0:56£0.69
Listen15. Silent Noon (No. 2 of The House of Life)Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 4:16£0.69
Listen16. Come away, death Op. 6 No. 1Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 3:02£0.69
Listen17. Since we loved Op. 13 No. 7Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 1:16£0.69
Listen18. Earth and Air and Rain Op. 15: 6. Rollicum-RorumJonathan Lemalu/Roger Vignoles 2:01£0.69
Listen19. Sea FeverJonathan Lemalu/Roger Vignoles 2:11£0.69
Listen20. Trade Winds (Salt-Water Ballads No. 2)Jonathan Lemalu/Roger Vignoles 2:23£0.69
Listen21. Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (version with piano) (2003 Digital Remaster): I. Drake's Drum (Tempo di marcia moderato)Robert Lloyd/Nina Walker 2:43£0.69
Listen22. Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (version with piano) (2003 Digital Remaster): V. The Old Superb (Allegro vivace)Robert Lloyd/Nina Walker 3:25£0.69
Listen23. Four Indian Love Lyrics (2003 Digital Remaster): 3. Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar (Kashmiri Song)Frederick Harvey/Jack Byfield 3:02£0.69
Listen24. Bless this House (2003 Digital Remaster)Dame Janet Baker/Sir Philip Ledger 3:16£0.69
Listen25. Balulalow (wds Wedderburn brothers after Luther) (1994 Digital Remaster)Dame Janet Baker/Sir Philip Ledger 1:49£0.69
Listen26. Tom Bowling (1993 Digital Remaster)Robert Tear/André Previn 4:19£0.69
Listen27. Home! sweet home! (1993 Digital Remaster)Robert Tear/André Previn 3:36£0.69
Listen28. Come into the garden, Maud (1993 Digital Remaster)Robert Tear/André Previn 4:12£0.69
Listen29. Folk Song Arrangement: The Foggy, Foggy Dew (2000 Digital Remaster)Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger 2:24£0.69
Listen30. Folk Song Arrangement: The Plough Boy (2000 Digital Remaster)Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger 1:50£0.69
Listen31. Façade - An entertainment with poems by Edith Sitwell (2000 Digital Remaster): 19. Popular SongFenella Fielding/Michael Flanders/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Sir Neville Marriner 2:00£0.69


Disc 2:

Extraits
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Greensleeves [solo lute verse at end cut] (1995 Digital Remaster)Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 2:11£0.69
Listen  2. Two songs (1995 Digital Remaster): It was a lover and his lasse (The First Booke of Ayres or Little Short Songs) (As you like it)Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 3:10£0.69
Listen  3. Two songs (1995 Digital Remaster): O mistress mine (attrib. Morley; arr. from The First Booke of Consort Lessons) (Twelfth Night)Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 1:39£0.69
Listen  4. The Willow Song (Othello) (1995 Digital Remaster)Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 4:16£0.69
Listen  5. Where the bee sucks (The Tempest) (1995 Digital Remaster)Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 1:14£0.69
Listen  6. Full fathom five (The Tempest) (1995 Digital Remaster)Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupré 2:12£0.69
Listen  7. Lullaby, my sweet little baby [last verse cut]Michael Chance/Fretwork 5:59£0.69
Listen  8. Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis (Ye sacred muses)Michael Chance/Christopher Wilson 4:08£0.69
Listen  9. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: Sorrow, stay!Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley 3:04£0.69
Listen10. Can she excuse my wrongs? (The First Booke of Songes or Ayres)Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley 2:31£0.69
Listen11. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: Awake, sweet love (The First Booke of Songes)Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley 2:48£0.69
Listen12. Woeful heart (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)Dame Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley 2:51£0.69
Listen13. Shall I sue? (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)Charles Daniels/David Miller 2:36£0.69
Listen14. Me, me and none but me (The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires)Charles Daniels/David Miller 2:11£0.69
Listen15. Flow, my tears (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)Charles Daniels/David Miller 3:51£0.69
Listen16. King Arthur Z628: Fairest isle (Act V)Nancy Argenta/Nigel North 2:36£0.69
Listen17. Oedipus Z583: Music for a whileNancy Argenta/John Toll 3:55£0.69
Listen18. I attempt from love's sickness (fom 'The Indian Queen' Z630)Nancy Argenta/Paul Nicholson 2:02£0.69
Listen19. If music be the food of love Z379/1Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/John Toll 2:05£0.69
Listen20. Now that the sun hath veiled his light (Evening Hymn) Z193Nancy Argenta/Paul Nicholson 5:27£0.69
Listen21. Yarmouth Fair (1994 Digital Remaster)Owen Brannigan/Ernest Lush 1:40£0.69
Listen22. The Smuggler's Song (2003 Digital Remaster)Owen Brannigan/Gerald Moore 3:37£0.69
Listen23. Down Below (2003 Digital Remaster)Ian Wallace/Donald Swann 2:44£0.69
Listen24. A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) (2003 Digital Remaster)Ian Wallace/Donald Swann 2:35£0.69
Listen25. The Wart Hog (2003 Digital Remaster)Ian Wallace/Donald Swann 3:48£0.69
Listen26. The Hippopotamus Song [introduced by Michael Flanders] (1991 Digital Remaster)Michael Flanders/Donald Swann 4:02£0.69

On this CD:
  1. Linden Lea
    Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    with Gerald Moore, Janet Baker

  2. Songs Sacred and Profane
    Composed by John Ireland
    with Gerald Moore, Janet Baker

  3. English Lyrics, Set 2
    Composed by Hubert Parry
    with Gerald Moore, Janet Baker

  4. (3) Songs
    Composed by Roger Quilter
    with Gerald Moore, Janet Baker

  5. (3) Songs
    Composed by Roger Quilter
    with Geoffrey Parsons, Thomas Allen

  6. In Summertime on Bredon
    Composed by Graham Peel
    with Geoffrey Parsons, Thomas Allen

  7. (A) Shropshire Lad
    Composed by George Butterworth
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison

  8. Down by the Salley Gardens
    Composed by Ivor Gurney
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison

  9. Black Stitchel
    Composed by Ivor Gurney
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison

  10. My Own Country
    Composed by Peter Warlock
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison

  11. Passing by
    Composed by Peter Warlock
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison

  12. Pretty Ring Time
    Composed by Peter Warlock
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison

  13. (10) Blake Songs
    Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    with Ian Partridge, Janet Craxton

  14. (10) Blake Songs
    Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    with Ian Partridge, Janet Craxton

  15. (The) House of Life
    Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    with Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake

  16. (3) Shakespeare Songs
    Composed by Roger Quilter
    with Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake

  17. Oh fair to see
    Composed by Gerald Finzi
    with Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake

  18. Earth and Air and Rain
    Composed by Gerald Finzi
    with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu

  19. Sea Fever
    Composed by John Ireland
    with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu

  20. Trade Winds
    Composed by Frederick Keel
    with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu

  21. Songs of the Sea
    Composed by Charles Villiers Stanford
    with Nina Walker, Robert Lloyd

  22. Songs of the Sea
    Composed by Charles Villiers Stanford
    with Nina Walker, Robert Lloyd

  23. (4) Indian Love Lyrics
    Composed by Amy Woodforde-Finden
    with Frederick Harvey

  24. Bless this house
    Composed by May Hannah Brahe
    with Janet Baker, Philip Ledger

  25. Balulalow
    Composed by Peter Warlock
    with Janet Baker, Philip Ledger

  26. Tom Bowling
    Composed by Charles Dibdin
    with Philip Ledger, Robert Tear

  27. Home, sweet home
    Composed by Henry R Bishop
    with Philip Ledger, Robert Tear

  28. Come into the garden, Maud
    Composed by Michael William Balfe
    with Philip Ledger, Robert Tear

  29. Façade
    Composed by William Walton
    Conducted by Neville Marriner

  30. Greensleeves, 'Alas! my love'
    Composed by Traditional
    with Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré

  31. It was a lover and his lass
    Composed by Thomas Morley
    with Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré

  32. Where the bee sucks
    Composed by Robert II Johnson
    with Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré

  33. Full fathom five
    Composed by Robert II Johnson
    with Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré

  34. Lullaby my sweet little baby
    Composed by William Byrd
    with Michael Chance

  35. (The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres
    Composed by John Dowland
    with Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby

  36. (The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres
    Composed by John Dowland
    with Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby

  37. (The) First Book of Songs or Ayres
    Composed by John Dowland
    with Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby

  38. (The) First Book of Songs or Ayres
    Composed by John Dowland
    with Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby

  39. (The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres
    Composed by John Dowland
    with Charles Daniels, David Miller

  40. (The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres
    Composed by John Dowland
    with Charles Daniels, David Miller

  41. (The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires
    Composed by John Dowland
    with Charles Daniels, David Miller

  42. King Arthur
    Composed by Henry Purcell
    with Nancy Argenta

  43. Oedipus
    Composed by Henry Purcell
    with Nancy Argenta

  44. (The) Indian Queen
    Composed by Henry Purcell
    with Nancy Argenta

  45. If music be the food of love
    Composed by Henry Purcell
    with Nancy Argenta

  46. (An) Evening Hymn on a Ground, 'Now that the sun h
    Composed by Henry Purcell
    with Nancy Argenta

  47. Yarmouth Fair
    Composed by Peter Warlock
    with Ernest Lush, Owen Brannigan

  48. (The) Smuggler's Song
    Composed by Harry Mortimer
    with Gerald Moore, Owen Brannigan

  49. Down Below
    Composed by Sydney Carter
    with Ian Wallace

  50. (A) Transport of Delight
    Composed by Donald Swann
    with Ian Wallace

  51. (The) Wart Hog
    Composed by Donald Swann
    with Ian Wallace

  52. (The) Hippopotamus Song
    Composed by Donald Swann

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Very Best of (Southern) English Song, 26 Jan 2008
Understated, underrated.

Understated is one thing, underrated is another.

In fact, it's a masterly selection. Why doesn't it have more reviews? Why isn't it top of the pops? Oh, I see. Not good Enough for the Great British Public. Silly of me not to realise.

A rich range, containing Home and Away, Sea and Empire, war and love, history. Should be a compulsory part of the National Curriculum. Bet there's plenty of stuff they could ditch that covers the same ground [or less] much more boringly.

The music shows the man: one who knew his country and loved it.

I didn't know the English had so many good songs. I knew they had a few, but thought the Celts were the only ones in these islands to have more than their fair share of really good songs.

I bet he was a Southerner though. Excellent though the selection is, for me, for it to excel excellent [and do the North justice] it would have a few like Ilkley Moor, the Oak and the Ash, and the Blaydon Races.

Stiil, not bad for a Southron!
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