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The Very Best of English Song

Anthony Rooley · Philip Ledger · Robert Tear · Roger Vignoles · André Previn · John Toll · Neville Marriner · Academy of St Martin in the Fields · Janet Baker

EMI Classics2003Cat. 7243 5 75926 2 849m19 tracks

Composers

John Dowland4 Henry Purcell2 John Ireland2 Charles Dibdin1 Frederick Keel1 Gerald Finzi1 Hubert Parry1 May Brahe1 Michael William Balfe1 Peter Warlock1 Ralph Vaughan Williams1 Roger Quilter1 William Shield1 William Walton1

Tracklist

Disc 1

01

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Linden Lea

2:51

02

The Salley Gardens

John Ireland - Songs Sacred and Profane: No. 4. The Salley Gardens

2:14

03

O Mistress Mine

Hubert Parry - English Lyrics: Set II, I. "O mistress mine"

1:32

04

Love’s Philosophy, op. 3 no. 1

Roger Quilter - Love’s Philosophy, op. 3 no. 1

1:32

18

Gerald Finzi - Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 6. Rollicum-Rorum

1:59

19

John Ireland - Sea Fever

2:11

20

Frederick Keel - Three Salt-Water Ballads

2:24

24

Bless This House

May Brahe - Bless This House

Philip Ledger, Janet Baker

3:16

25

Peter Warlock - Balulalow

Philip Ledger, Janet Baker

1:46

26

Charles Dibdin - Poor Tom Bowling

André Previn, Robert Tear

4:19

28

Come Into the Garden, Maud

Michael William Balfe - Come Into the Garden Maud

André Previn, Robert Tear

4:11

30

William Shield - Folksong Arrangements, Volume III: The Plough Boy

Philip Ledger, Robert Tear

1:44

31

William Walton - Façade: Popular Song

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

2:01

Disc 2