tracks

Folk Songs Volume 1 - British Isles
The Salley Gardens
Little Sir William
The Bonny Earl o' Moray
O can ye sew cushions?
The trees they grow so high
The Ash Grove
Oliver Cromwell
Unpublished Folk Songs
Greensleeves
I wonder as I wander
The Crocodile
Folk Songs Volume 3 - British Isles
The Plough Boy
There's none to soothe
Sweet Polly Oliver
The Miller of Dee
The fogy, foggy dew
O Waly, Waly
Come you not from Newcastle?
Unpublished Folk Song
Pray Goody
Folk Songs Volume 5 - British Isles
The Brisk Young Widow
Sally in our Alley
The Lincolnshire Poacher
Early one morning
Ca' the yowes
Unpublished Folk Songs
The Holly and the Ivy
Soldier, won't you marry me?
The Deaf Woman's Courtship
Folk Songs Volume 4 - Moore's Irish Melodies
Avenging and bright
Sail on, sail on
How sweet the answer
The Minstrel Boy
At the mid hour of night
Rich and rare
Dear Harp of my Country?
Oft in the stilly night
The last rose of summer
O the sight entrancing
Folk Songs Volume 2 - France
La Noël passé
Voici le Printemps
Fileuse
Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse
La belle est au jardin d'amour
Il est quelqu'un sur terre
Eho! Eho!
Quand j'étais chez mon père
Folk Songs Volume 6 - England
I will give my love an apple
Sailor-boy
Master Kilby
The Soldier and the Sailor
Bonny at Morn
The shooting of his Dear
Unpublished Folk Songs
The Stream in the Valley
Unidentified folk song setting

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

credits

Composed By – Benjamin Britten
Engineer – Alan Driedger (tracks: 3-9), Mike Hatch
Liner Notes – Keith Anderson (6)
Music Consultant – Colin Matthews
Piano – Graham Johnson (2)
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

companies

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

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