The Voice of Peter Pears

FORD

1

Fair, sweet, cruel

1:57

ROSSETER

2

What then but love is mourning

2:46

DOWLAND

3

I say my lady weep

4:06

MORLEY

4

It was a lover and his lass

2:21

CAMPIAN

5

Shall I come sweet love

2:58

DOWLAND

6

What if I never speed

1:32

Peter Pears, Julian Bream, first published 1956

SCHUBERT

7

Im Frühling, D.882

4:58

8

Auf der Bruck, D.853

3:31

Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, first published 1950

9

An die laute D.905

1:46

10

Die Taubenpost D.957 No.14

3:47

Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, first published 1960

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35

11

Oh my blacke soul

3:14

12

Batter my heart

1:11

13

O might those sighs and teares

2:59

14

Oh, to vex me

1:01

15

What if this present

2:51

16

Since she whom I loved

3:41

17

At the earth's imagined corners

2:43

18

Thou hast made me

1:20

19

Death, be not proud

4:07

Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, recorded 1947

JOHN IRELAND (anon.)

20

I have twelve oxon

1:43

MOERAN (Wever)

21

In youth is pleasure

2:24

WARLOCK (anon.)

22

Yarmouth Fair

1:36

LENNOX BERKELEY (Herrick)

23

How love came in

1:17

BRIDGE (Coleridge)

24

Love went a-riding

1:38

Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, first published 1956

Folksongs

TRADITIONAL / BENJAMIN BRITTEN

25

The Plough Boy *

2:00

TRADITIONAL

26

Six Dukes went a-fishin

3:04

TRADITIONAL / AARON COPLAND

27

Long Time Ago

3:09

28

Simple Gifts

1:42

29

I bought me a cat

2:10

Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten recorded in 1947 (*) and 1950

Peter Pears vocal