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Benjamin Britten - The Collector's Edition (EMI Classics) - CD26. Songs; Folksong arrangements; Folk songs

by Benjamin Britten

 



Tracks

Beware!: Three Early Songs - 1. Beware (Longfellow, from the German) (1922)
Beware!: Three Early Songs - 2. O that I had ne'er been married (Burns) (1922)
Beware!: Three Early Songs - 3. Epitaph: The Clerk (Asquith) (1926)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 1 no.4 (British Isles) - O can ye sew cushions? (Scottish tune) (1940)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 1 no.5 (British Isles) - The trees they grow so high (Somerset folksong) (1942)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 2 no.2 (France) - Voici le printemps (Anon.) (1942)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 3 no.3 (British Isles) - Sweet Polly Oliver (Old English tune) (1945)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 4 no.3 (Moore’s Irish Melodies) - How sweet the answer (The Wren) (1957)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 4 no.4 (Moore’s Irish Melodies) - The Minstrel Boy (The Morreen) (1957)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 4 no.7 (Moore’s Irish Melodies) - Dear Harp of my Country (Kate Tyrrel) (1957)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 4 no.8 (Moore’s Irish Melodies) - Oft in the stilly night (1957)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 4 no.9 (Moore’s Irish Melodies) - The last rose of summer (Groves of Blarney) (1957)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 5 no.1 (British Isles) - The Brisk Young Widow (Traditional) (1954)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 5 no.3 (British Isles) - The Lincolnshire Poacher (Traditional) (1959)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 5 no.4 (British Isles) - Early one morning (Traditional) (1957)
Folksong Arrangements, Volume 5 no.5 (British Isles) - Ca' the Yowes (Robert Burns) (1951)
Not even summer yet (Burns) (1937)
The Oxen (1967)
Three rhymes by William Soutar (1969) - Dawlie's Devotion
Three rhymes by William Soutar (1969) - The Gully
Three rhymes by William Soutar (1969) - Tradition
Tit for Tat (1928-1931, 1968) - 1. A Song Echantment
Tit for Tat (1928-1931, 1968) - 3. Silver
Tit for Tat (1928-1931, 1968) - 5. Tit for Tat
Two Ballads for voices and piano (1936) - 1. Mother Comfort (Montagu Slater)
Two Ballads for voices and piano (1936) - 2. Underneath the abject willow (W.H. Auden)
Two Songs by Thomas Hardy - 1. The Childrfen and Sir Nameless (1953)
Two Songs by Thomas Hardy - 2. If it's ever spring again (1953)
Two songs by W.H. Auden (1937) - Night covers up the rigid land
Two songs by W.H. Auden (1937) - To lie flat on the back with the knees flexed