The acclaimed English Song Series celebrates the richness and diversity of British composers, performed by leading interpreters of the repertoire. Growing out of an ancient tradition that still echoes in the folk song arrangements of Benjamin Britten, the British art song draws it's inspiration from the English poetic language, the nation's unique land and seascapes, and the suffering and joy of human emotions. From the delightfully light-hearted songs of Liza Lehmann to the abundance of invention and imagery from today's composers, this collection is a repository of the essence of British musical craftsmanship at it's finest.

Tracklist:

The Winds
Tritons
Beatriz's Song (arr. C. Palmer for voice and piano)
Under the Greenwood Tree
No.
Daphne
No.
Through Gilded Trellises
No.
Old Sir Faulk
No.
Fain would I change that note
No.
O stay, sweet love
1
No.
Lady, when I behold the roses
1
No.
My love in her attire
1
No.
I gave her cakes and I gave her ale
1
No.
To couple is a custom
1
No.
The Lord Mayor's Table
1
No.
Glide Gently
1
No.
Wapping Old Stairs
1
No.
Holy Thursday
1
No.
The Contrast
1
No.
Rhyme
2
No.
Long Steel Grass
2
No.
Tango - Pasodoble
2
No.
Popular Song
.
O mistress mine
Orpheus with his lute
Sweet Kate
No.
The shepherd
No.
The blossom
No.
The lamb
No.
Nurse's Song
No.
Birds in the high Hall-garden
No.
Go not, happy day
1
No.
Come into the garden, Maud
1
No.
James Lee's Wife speaks at the window
1
No.
By the fireside
1
No.
In the doorway
1
No.
On the cliff
1
No.
Among the rocks
1
The Bargain
1
Fain would I change that note
1
Shepherd's cradle song
1
Come to me in my dreams
2
Long in Springtime: No.
Dainty little maiden
2
When Spring returns
2
No.
Lovliest of trees
2
No.
When I was one-and-twenty
2
No.
There pass the careless people
2
No.
In summer-time on Bredon
2
No.
The street sounds to a soldier's tread
2
No.
On the idle hill of summer
2
No.
White in the moon the long road lies
2
No.
Think no more lad, laugh, be jolly
3
No.
Into my heart an air that kills
3
No. 1
The lads in their hundreds
.
It was a Lover and his Lass
No.
The Lawyer
The Splendour Falls
4 Poems by Fredegond Shove: No.
The Water Mill
4 Last Songs: No.
Tired
The House of Life: No.
Silent Noon
No.
Searching for Lambs
No.
Nocturne
No.
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
1
No.
Lord, come away
1
No.
Come Love, come Lord
1
No.
Easter
1
No.
I got me flowers
1
No.
Love bade me welcome
1
No.
The call
1
No.
Antiphon
1
No.
On Wenlock Edge
1
No.
From far, from eve and morning
1
No.
Is my team ploughing?
2
No.
Oh, when I was in love with you
2
No.
Bredon Hill
2
No.
Clun
2
Dirge for Fidele
.
O Curlew, cry no more in the air
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair
I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds
Interlude
I wander by the edge of this desolate lake
No.
The Distracted Maid
No.
Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
No.
Rantum Tantum
Peter Warlock's Fancy
1
No.
Chopcherry
1
No.
A Sad Song
1
No.
Rutterkin
1
My gostly fader
1
Bright is the ring of words
1
No.
Along the stream
1
No.
Take, O take those lips away
1
No.
Heraclitus
1
The cloths of Heaven
1
The frostbound wood
2
Bethlehem Down
2
Sweet and twenty
2
And wilt thou leave me thus?
2
Mr Belloc's Fancy
2
No.
Roister Doister
2
No.
Spring
2
No.
Lusty Juventus
2
The Bachelor
2
Away to Twiver
2
Captain Stratton's Fancy
.
No.
It was a lover and his lass
No.
Take, O take those lips away
3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: No.
O mistress mine
4 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 30: No.
How should I your true love know
2 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 32: No.
Orpheus with his lute
Hark! Hark! the lark
No.
Ca' the Yowes
No.
Charlie is my darling
No.
Ye Banks and Braes
1
I arise from dreams of thee
1
6 Songs, Op. 25: No.
Music, when soft voices die
1
3 Songs, Op. 3: No.
Love's Philosophy
1
Spring is at the door
1
Songs of Sorrow, Op. 10: No.
Passing dreams
1
4 Songs, Op. 14: No.
Autumn Evening
1
6 Songs, Op. 25: No.
An old carol
1
No.
I will go with my father a-ploughing
1
No.
Cherry valley
1
No.
I wish and I wish
2
5 English Love Lyrics, Op. 24: No.
Go, lovely rose
2
4 Songs, Op. 14: No.
A last year's rose
2
3 Songs, Op. 15: No.
Amaryllis at the fountain
2
5 Jacobean Lyrics, Op. 28: No.
I dare not ask a kiss
2
3 Songs, Op. 3: No.
Now sleeps the crimson petal
2
Prelude
2
No.
The bracelet
2
No.
The maiden blush
2
No.
To daisies
2
No.
The night piece
3
No.
Julia's hair
3
Interlude
3
No.
Cherry ripe
3
Love calls through the summer night
.
No.
Jesu sweet
No.
My soul has nought but fire and ice
No.
I sing of a maiden
No.
My Leman is so true
No.
Calm is the morn
No.
My true love hath my heart
No.
Weep you no more
No.
Lovely kind and kindly loving
No.
Cradle Song
1
No.
Peace
1
No.
Ushas (Dawn)
1
No.
Varuna I (Sky)
1
No.
Maruts (Storm Clouds)
1
No.
Indra (God of Storm and Battle)
1
No.
Varuna II (The Waters)
1
No.
Song of the Frogs
1
No.
Vac (Speech)
1
No.
Creation
1
No.
Faith
2
No.
Persephone
2
No.
Things lovelier
2
No.
Now in these fairylands
2
No.
A little music
2
No.
The thought
2
No.
The floral bandit
2
No.
Envoi
2
No.
The dream-city
2
No.
Journey's end
2
No. 1
In the street of lost time
3
No. 1
Rhyme
3
No. 1
Betelgeuse
3
4 Songs, Op. 4: No.
Margrete's Cradle Song
3
The Heart Worships
.
No.
Sonnet VI: Oh my blacke Soule!
No.
Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart
No.
Sonnet III: O might those sighes and teares
No.
Sonnet XIX: Oh, to vex me
No.
Sonnet XIII: What if this present
No.
Sonnet XVII: Since she whom I lov'd
No.
Sonnet VII: At the round earth's imagin'd corners
No.
Sonnet I: Thou hast made me
No.
Sonnet X: Death, be not proud
1
No.
Sonetto XVI: Si come nella penna e nell'inchiostro
1
No.
Sonetto XXXI: A che piÃ¹ debb'io mai l'intensa voglia
1
No.
Sonetto XXX: Veggio co' be' vostri occhi un dolce lume
1
No.
Sonetto LV: Tu sa' ch'io so, signior mie, che tu sai
1
No.
Sonetto XXXVIII: Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume
1
No.
Sonetto XXXII: S'un casto amor, s'una pieta superna
1
No.
Sonetto XXIV: Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede
1
No.
At Day-close in November
1
No.
Midnight on the Great Western
1
No.
Wagtail and Baby
2
No.
The Little Old Table
2
No.
The Choirmaster's Burial
2
No.
Proud S

UPC: 730099250740
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 5.14.21
Format: CD

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