There is sweet music

Description

English choral songs, 1890-1950.

Featuring masterpieces by Benjamin Britten (Five Flower Songs), Vaughan Williams (Three Shakespeare Songs), Stanford, Delius and Elgar alongside folk-song arrangements by Bairstow, Chapman, Grainger, Holst, Moeran and Stanford, this collection highlights a golden age of the English part-song, now somewhat neglected but nonetheless offering many gem-like compositions worthy of re-investigation.

Track list

1. The Blue Bird (Stanford)
2. Two Unaccompanied Partsongs: To be sung on a summer night on the water (I) (Delius)
3. Two Unaccompanied Partsongs: To be sung on a summer night on the water (II) (Delius)
4. There is sweet music (Elgar)
5. My love dwelt in a Northern land (Elgar)
6. Three Shakespeare Songs: Full fathom five (Vaughan Williams)
7. Three Shakespeare Songs: The cloud-capped towers (Vaughan Williams)
8. Three Shakespeare Songs: Over hill, over dale (Vaughan Williams)
9. The sailor and young Nancy (arr. Moeran)
10. Brigg Fair (arr. Grainger)
11. Londonderry air (arr. Grainger)
12. The three ravens (arr. Edward T. Chapman)
13. My sweetheart’s like Venus (arr. Holst)
14. The oak and the ash (arr. Bairstow)
15. Quick! We have but a second (arr. Stanford)
16. Five Flower Songs: To daffodils (Britten)
17. Five Flower Songs: The succession of the four sweet months (Britten)
18. Five Flower Songs: Marsh flowers (Britten)
19. Five Flower Songs: The evening primrose (Britten)
20. Five Flower Songs: Ballad of green broom (Britten)