Song Cycles

BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976)

British Folksong Arrangements

1

Lemady

1:08

2

Bonny at morn

2:40

3

I was lonely and forlorn

2:03

4

Lord! I married me a wife!

1:07

5

She's like the swallow

3:11

Three Early Songs

6

Beware (Longfellow, from German)

1:08

7

O that I'd ne'er been married (Robert Burns)

1:21

8

Epitaph: The Clerk (Herbert Asquith)

0:37

Tit for Tat

(Words by Walter de la Mare)

9

A Song of Enchantment

2:10

10

Autumn

1:00

11

Silver

1:45

12

Vigil

1:36

13

Tit for Tat

2:04

British Folksong Arrangements

14

O Waly, Waly

3:22

15

Sweet Poly Oliver

1:31

16

The Salley Gardens

2:45

Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, Op. 74

17

Proverb I: The pride of the pea-cock

1:03

18

London

1:47

19

Proverb II: Prisons are built

0:30

20

The Chimney-sweeper

1:56

21

Proverb III: The bird a nest

0:38

22

A Poison Tree

4:26

23

Proverb IV: Think in the morning

0:57

24

The Tyger

1:41

25

Proverb V: The tygers of wrath

0:51

26

The Fly

1:47

27

Proverb VI: The hours of folly

1:41

28

Ah, Sun-flower!

2:46

29

Proverb VII: To see a World

0:45

30

Ev'ry Night and Ev'ry Morn

2:58

Benjamin Luxon baritone

David Willison piano

12 and 13 April 1986