Favourite English Songs

MAUDE VALÉRIE WHITE (1855-1937)

1

So we'll go no more a-roving

4:38

Words by Lord Byron

EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)

2

Queen Mary's Song

4:29

Words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

THOMAS DUNHILL (1877-1946)

3

The Cloths of Heaven. Op. 30 No. 3

2:29

from The Wind among the Reeds

Words by W.B. Yeats

ROGER QUILTER (1877-1953)

4

Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1

1:24

from Three Songs

Words by Percy Bysshe Shelley

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

5

Silent Noon

4:38

from The House of Life

Words by D.G. Rosetti

DOROTHY HOGBEN (dates unknown)

6

The Shawl

4:23

Words by Lawrence Atkinson

BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976)

7

Fish in the unruffled lakes

3:08

Words by W.H. Auden

LENNOX BERKELEY (1903-1989)

8

O lurcher-loving collier, Op. 53 No. 2

2:30

from Five Poems by W.H. Auden

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

9

O Waly, Waly

3:58

from British Folk Songs, Volume 3 No. 6

Folksong from Somerset

PERCY GRAINGER (1882-1961)

10

The Sprig of Thyme

2:32

Folksong from Lincolnshire

GEOFFREY BUSH (1920-1998)

11

Sigh no more, ladies

1:56

from Eight Songs for High Voice

Words by William Shakespeare

HERBERT HOWELLS (1892-1983)

12

Come Sing and Dance

3:52

Words from an old carol

13

Gavotte

3:05

Words by Sir Henry Newbolt

FRANK BRIDGE (1879-1941)

14

Go not, happy day

1:22

Words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

PETER WARLOCK (1894-1930)

15

My Own Country

2:48

from Three Belloc Songs

Words by Hilaire Belloc

CECIL ARMSTRONG GIBBS (1889-1960)

16

Silver, Op. 30 No. 2

3:16

Words by Walter de la Mare

GRAHAM PEEL (1877-1960)

17

The Early Morning

1:28

Words by Hilaire Belloc

MICHAEL HEAD (1900-1976)

18

Sweet Chance, that led my steps abroad

2:17

from Songs of the Countryside

Words by W.H. Davies

LIZA LEHMANN (1862-1918)

19

The Swing

1:25

from The Daisy-Chain

Words by R.L. Stevenson

GERALD HUGH TYRWHITT-WILSON (1883-1950)

Lord Berners

20

Red Roses and Red Noses

2:23

Words by Lord Berners

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

21

Come you not from Newcastle?

1:06

from Hullah's Song-Book (English)

WILLIAM WALTON (1902-1983)

22

Old Sir Faulk

2:05

Words by Dame Edith Sitwell

Felicity Lott soprano

Graham Johnson piano

24-26 October 1988