English Song
£12.00
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, Julian Bream
HTGCD224 – 5013993888598
Peter Pears’ voice was undoubtedly one of the finest and most distinctive of the twentieth century and here he collaborates with Julian Bream and Benjamin Britten in performances of English song. Repertoire includes works by Ford, Morley, Rosseter, Dowland, Pilkington, Campian, Bridge, Butterworth, Ireland, Moeran, Warlock, Holst, Berkeley, Oldham and Britten.
- Ford – Fair, sweet, cruel
- Rosseter – When Laura Smiles
- Dowland – I saw my lady weep
- Morley – It was a lover and his lass
- Dowland – Awake, sweet love
- Rosseter – What then is love but mourning
- Morley – Mistress mine, well may you fare
- Dowland – Fine knacks for ladies
- Rosseter – Sweet come again
- Morley – Thyrsis and Milla
- Dowland – Sorrow stay
- Ford – Come Phyllis come
- Morley – I saw my lady weeping
- Pilkington – Rest, sweet nymphs
- Morley – What if my mistress now
- Campian – Come let us sound with melody
- Anon. – Misere, my maker
- Rosseter – What is a day?
- Campian – Fair if you expect admiring
- Campian – Shall I come sweet love?
- Dowland – If my complaints
- Dowland – What if I never speed
Julian Bream (lute)
- Bridge – Go not, happy day (Tennyson)
- Butterworth – Is my team ploughing? (Housman)
- Ireland – I have twelve oxon (anon.)
- Moeran – In youth is pleasure (Wever)
- Warlock - Yarmouth Fair (anon.)
- Holst – Persephone (Humbert Wolfe)
- Berkeley – How love came in (Herrick)
- Britten – Let the florid music praise! (Auden)
- Herd Boy’s Song
- Fishing
- Pedlar of Spells
- Bridge – Love went a-riding (Mary Coleridge)
Oldham – Three Chinese lyrics
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Tracks 1-7 first published in 1956
Tracks 8-22 first published in 1960
Tracks 23-34 first published in 1956
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