Benjamin Britten - The Folk Songs

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Folk Songs Volume 1 - British Isles
1-1	The Salley Gardens	2:34
1-2	Little Sir William	3:01
1-3	The Bonny Earl o' Moray	2:35
1-4	O can ye sew cushions?	2:20
1-5	The trees they grow so high	3:36
1-6	The Ash Grove	2:35
1-7	Oliver Cromwell	0:46
Unpublished Folk Songs
1-8	Greensleeves	1:57
1-9	I wonder as I wander	4:00
1-10	The Crocodile	4:47
Folk Songs Volume 3 - British Isles
1-11	The Plough Boy	1:56
1-12	There's none to soothe	1:37
1-13	Sweet Polly Oliver	2:14
1-14	The Miller of Dee	1:56
1-15	The fogy, foggy dew	2:34
1-16	O Waly, Waly	4:03
1-17	Come you not from Newcastle?	1:12
Unpublished Folk Song
1-18	Pray Goody	0:48
Folk Songs Volume 5 - British Isles
1-19	The Brisk Young Widow	2:07
1-20	Sally in our Alley	4:09
1-21	The Lincolnshire Poacher	2:09
1-22	Early one morning	3:18
1-23	Ca' the yowes	3:40
Unpublished Folk Songs
1-24	The Holly and the Ivy	2:24
1-25	Soldier, won't you marry me?	1:41
1-26	The Deaf Woman's Courtship	1:19
Folk Songs Volume 4 - Moore's Irish Melodies
2-1	Avenging and bright	1:34
2-2	Sail on, sail on	2:26
2-3	How sweet the answer	1:57
2-4	The Minstrel Boy	2:23
2-5	At the mid hour of night	2:46
2-6	Rich and rare	3:07
2-7	Dear Harp of my Country?	2:26
2-8	Oft in the stilly night	2:47
2-9	The last rose of summer	3:45
2-10	O the sight entrancing	2:14
Folk Songs Volume 2 - France
2-11	La Noël passé	3:54
2-12	Voici le Printemps	1:46
2-13	Fileuse	1:51
2-14	Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse	2:19
2-15	La belle est au jardin d'amour	3:14
2-16	Il est quelqu'un sur terre	4:56
2-17	Eho! Eho!	1:55
2-18	Quand j'étais chez mon père	2:01
Folk Songs Volume 6 - England Guitar – Carlos Bonell
2-19	I will give my love an apple	1:19
2-20	Sailor-boy	1:54
2-21	Master Kilby	1:59
2-22	The Soldier and the Sailor	2:39
2-23	Bonny at Morn	2:32
2-24	The shooting of his Dear	2:59
Unpublished Folk Songs Cello – Christopher Van Kampen
2-25	The Stream in the Valley	2:34
2-26	Unidentified folk song setting	3:33

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Lambourne Productions Limited
• Copyright (c) – Naxos Rights International Ltd.

Credits

• Composed By – Benjamin Britten
• Engineer – Alan Driedger (tracks: 3-9), Mike Hatch
• Liner Notes – Keith Anderson
• Music Consultant – Colin Matthews
• Piano – Graham Johnson
• Producer – John H. West, Michael Emery (tracks: 3-9), Stephen Johns (tracks: 2-19 to 2-24)
• Soprano Vocals – Felicity Lott
• Tenor Vocals – Philip Langridge

Notes

Recorded at St Giles Church Cripplegate, London 20-21 March 1995 (CD1 1-8 & 10-24, CD 2 Tracks 1-24).
St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge 9th June 1995 (CD1 track 9) and at Henry Wood Hall, London, March 25, 1995 (CDs 1 & 2 Tracks 25-26).
Recorded in Association with the Britten Estate
Originally part of the Collins Classics BRITTEN EDITION 70392 (3 CD set)
Made in Great Britain
℗ 1995 Lambourne Productions Ltd
© 1995 Lambourne Productions Ltd
Includes 80 page booklet with essays, notes and all words

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 747313222025
• Other (Spars Code): DDD