The Early HMV Recordings

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op.22

1

Si come nella penna

1:59

2

A che piu debb 'io mai

1:18

3

Veggio co 'bei vostri occhi

3:08

4

Tu sa 'ch 'io so

1:45

5

Rendete a gli occhi miei

1:48

6

S'un casto amor

1:13

7

Spirto ben nato

4:38

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35

8

Oh my blacke soule!

3:14

9

Batter my heart

1:11

10

O might those sighes and teares

2:59

11

Oh, to vex me

1:01

12

What if this present

2:51

13

Since she whom I loved

3:41

14

At the round earth's imagined corners

2:43

15

Thou hast made me

1:20

16

Death, be not proud

4:07

Folk Song Arrangements

17

The Plough Boy

2:00

18

Come you not from Newcastle

1:14

19

O Waly, Waly

3:33

20

The Foggy, Foggy Dew

2:40

PERCY GRAINGER

21

Six Dukes went-a-fishin

3:04

AARON COPLAND

(from Old American Songs

22

The Boatmen's Dance (Minstrel Song 1843)

3:15

23

Long Time Ago

3:09

24

The Dodger (Campaign Song)

1:43

25

Simple Gifts (Shaker Song)

1:42

26

I bought me a cat

2:05

FRANZ SCHUBERT

27

Im Frühling, D.882 (Schulze)

4:58

28

Auf der Bruck, D.853 (Schulze)

3:33

Peter Pears (tenor)