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The acclaimed English Song Series celebrates the richness and diversity of British composers, performed by leading interpreters of the repertoire. Growing out of an ancient tradition that still echoes in the folk song arrangements of Benjamin Britten, the British art song draws it's inspiration from the English poetic language, the nation's unique land and seascapes, and the suffering and joy of human emotions. From the delightfully light-hearted songs of Liza Lehmann to the abundance of invention and imagery from today's composers, this collection is a repository of the essence of British musical craftsmanship at it's finest.

1. 1. The Winds 2. 2. Tritons 3. 3. Beatriz's Song (arr. C. Palmer for voice and piano) 4. 4. Under the Greenwood Tree 5. 5. No. 1. Daphne 6. 6. No. 2. Through Gilded Trellises 7. 7. No. 3. Old Sir Faulk 8. 8. No. 1. Fain would I change that note 9. 9. No. 2. O stay, sweet love 10. 10. No. 3. Lady, when I behold the roses 11. 11. No. 4. My love in her attire 12. 12. No. 5. I gave her cakes and I gave her ale 13. 13. No. 6. To couple is a custom 14. 14. No. 1. The Lord Mayor's Table 15. 15. No. 2. Glide Gently 16. 16. No. 3. Wapping Old Stairs 17. 17. No. 4. Holy Thursday 18. 18. No. 5. The Contrast 19. 19. No. 6. Rhyme 20. 20. No. 1. Long Steel Grass 21. 21. No. 2. Tango - Pasodoble 22. 22. No. 3. Popular Song 23. . 24. 1. O mistress mine 25. 2. Orpheus with his lute 26. 3. Sweet Kate 27. 4. No. 1. The shepherd 28. 5. No. 2. The blossom 29. 6. No. 3. The lamb 30. 7. No. 4. Nurse's Song 31. 8. No. 5. Birds in the high Hall-garden 32. 9. No. 7. Go not, happy day 33. 10. No. 9. Come into the garden, Maud 34. 11. No. 1. James Lee's Wife speaks at the window 35. 12. No. 2. By the fireside 36. 13. No. 3. In the doorway 37. 14. No. 4. On the cliff 38. 15. No. 5. Among the rocks 39. 16. The Bargain 40. 17. Fain would I change that note 41. 18. Shepherd's cradle song 42. 19. Come to me in my dreams 43. 20. Long in Springtime: No. 2. Dainty little maiden 44. 21. When Spring returns 45. 22. No. 1. Lovliest of trees 46. 23. No. 2. When I was one-and-twenty 47. 24. No. 3. There pass the careless people 48. 25. No. 4. In summer-time on Bredon 49. 26. No. 5. The street sounds to a soldier's tread 50. 27. No. 6. On the idle hill of summer 51. 28. No. 7. White in the moon the long road lies 52. 29. No. 8. Think no more lad, laugh, be jolly 53. 30. No. 9. Into my heart an air that kills 54. 31. No. 10. The lads in their hundreds 55. . 56. 1. It was a Lover and his Lass 57. 2. No. 2. The Lawyer 58. 3. The Splendour Falls 59. 4. 4 Poems by Fredegond Shove: No. 4. The Water Mill 60. 5. 4 Last Songs: No. 2. Tired 61. 6. The House of Life: No. 2. Silent Noon 62. 7. No. 1. Searching for Lambs 63. 8. No. 1. Nocturne 64. 9. No. 3. Joy, Shipmate, Joy! 65. 10. No. 1. Lord, come away 66. 11. No. 3. Come Love, come Lord 67. 12. No. 1. Easter 68. 13. No. 2. I got me flowers 69. 14. No. 3. Love bade me welcome 70. 15. No. 4. The call 71. 16. No. 5. Antiphon 72. 17. No. 1. On Wenlock Edge 73. 18. No. 2. From far, from eve and morning 74. 19. No. 3. Is my team ploughing? 75. 20. No. 4. Oh, when I was in love with you 76. 21. No. 5. Bredon Hill 77. 22. No. 6. Clun 78. 23. Dirge for Fidele 79. . 80. 1. O Curlew, cry no more in the air 81. 2. Pale brows, still hands and dim hair 82. 3. I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds 83. 4. Interlude 84. 5. I wander by the edge of this desolate lake 85. 6. No. 1. The Distracted Maid 86. 7. No. 4. Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane 87. 8. No. 5. Rantum Tantum 88. 9. Peter Warlock's Fancy 89. 10. No. 1. Chopcherry 90. 11. No. 2. A Sad Song 91. 12. No. 3. Rutterkin 92. 13. My gostly fader 93. 14. Bright is the ring of words 94. 15. No. 1. Along the stream 95. 16. No. 2. Take, O take those lips away 96. 17. No. 3. Heraclitus 97. 18. The cloths of Heaven 98. 19. The frostbound wood 99. 20. Bethlehem Down 100. 21. Sweet and twenty 101. 22. And wilt thou leave me thus? 102. 23. Mr Belloc's Fancy 103. 24. No. 1. Roister Doister 104. 25. No. 2. Spring 105. 26. No. 3. Lusty Juventus 106. 27. The Bachelor 107. 28. Away to Twiver 108. 29. Captain Stratton's Fancy 109. . 110. 1. No. 3. It was a lover and his lass 111. 2. No. 4. Take, O take those lips away 112. 3. 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: No. 2. O mistress mine 113. 4. 4 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 30: No. 3. How should I your true love know 114. 5. 2 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 32: No. 1. Orpheus with his lute 115. 6. Hark! Hark! the lark 116. 7. No. 8. Ca' the Yowes 117. 8. No. 7. Charlie is my darling 118. 9. No. 6. Ye Banks and Braes 119. 10. I arise from dreams of thee 120. 11. 6 Songs, Op. 25: No. 5. Music, when soft voices die 121. 12. 3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 1. Love's Philosophy 122. 13. Spring is at the door 123. 14. Songs of Sorrow, Op. 10: No. 2. Passing dreams 124. 15. 4 Songs, Op. 14: No. 1. Autumn Evening 125. 16. 6 Songs, Op. 25: No. 3. An old carol 126. 17. No. 1. I will go with my father a-ploughing 127. 18. No. 2. Cherry valley 128. 19. No. 3. I wish and I wish 129. 20. 5 English Love Lyrics, Op. 24: No. 3. Go, lovely rose 130. 21. 4 Songs, Op. 14: No. 3. A last year's rose 131. 22. 3 Songs, Op. 15: No. 2. Amaryllis at the fountain 132. 23. 5 Jacobean Lyrics, Op. 28: No. 3. I dare not ask a kiss 133. 24. 3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 2. Now sleeps the crimson petal 134. 25. Prelude 135. 26. No. 1. The bracelet 136. 27. No. 2. The maiden blush 137. 28. No. 3. To daisies 138. 29. No. 4. The night piece 139. 30. No. 5. Julia's hair 140. 31. Interlude 141. 32. No. 6. Cherry ripe 142. 33. Love calls through the summer night 143. . 144. 1. No. 1. Jesu sweet 145. 2. No. 2. My soul has nought but fire and ice 146. 3. No. 3. I sing of a maiden 147. 4. No. 4. My Leman is so true 148. 5. No. 1. Calm is the morn 149. 6. No. 2. My true love hath my heart 150. 7. No. 3. Weep you no more 151. 8. No. 4. Lovely kind and kindly loving 152. 9. No. 5. Cradle Song 153. 10. No. 6. Peace 154. 11. No. 1. Ushas (Dawn) 155. 12. No. 2. Varuna I (Sky) 156. 13. No. 3. Maruts (Storm Clouds) 157. 14. No. 4. Indra (God of Storm and Battle) 158. 15. No. 5. Varuna II (The Waters) 159. 16. No. 6. Song of the Frogs 160. 17. No. 7. Vac (Speech) 161. 18. No. 8. Creation 162. 19. No. 9. Faith 163. 20. No. 1. Persephone 164. 21. No. 2. Things lovelier 165. 22. No. 3. Now in these fairylands 166. 23. No. 4. A little music 167. 24. No. 5. The thought 168. 25. No. 6. The floral bandit 169. 26. No. 7. Envoi 170. 27. No. 8. The dream-city 171. 28. No. 9. Journey's end 172. 29. No. 10. In the street of lost time 173. 30. No. 11. Rhyme 174. 31. No. 12. Betelgeuse 175. 32. 4 Songs, Op. 4: No. 2. Margrete's Cradle Song 176. 33. The Heart Worships 177. . 178. 1. No. 1. Sonnet VI: Oh my blacke Soule! 179. 2. No. 2. Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart 180. 3. No. 3. Sonnet III: O might those sighes and teares 181. 4. No. 4. Sonnet XIX: Oh, to vex me 182. 5. No. 5. Sonnet XIII: What if this present 183. 6. No. 6. Sonnet XVII: Since she whom I lov'd 184. 7. No. 7. Sonnet VII: At the round earth's imagin'd corners 185. 8. No. 8. Sonnet I: Thou hast made me 186. 9. No. 9. Sonnet X: Death, be not proud 187. 10. No. 1. Sonetto XVI: Si come nella penna e nell'inchiostro 188. 11. No. 2. Sonetto XXXI: A che pi? debb'io mai l'intensa voglia 189. 12. No. 3. Sonetto XXX: Veggio co' be' vostri occhi un dolce lume 190. 13. No. 4. Sonetto LV: Tu sa' ch'io so, signior mie, che tu sai 191. 14. No. 5. Sonetto XXXVIII: Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume 192. 15. No. 6. Sonetto XXXII: S'un casto amor, s'una pieta superna 193. 16. No. 7. Sonetto XXIV: Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede 194. 17. No. 1. At Day-close in November 195. 18. No. 2. Midnight on the Great Western 196. 19. No. 3. Wagtail and Baby 197. 20. No. 4. The Little Old Table 198. 21. No. 5. The Choirmaster's Burial 199. 22. No. 6. Proud Songsters 200. 23. No. 7. At the Railway Station, Upway 201. 24. No. 8. Before Life and After 202. 25. If it's ever Spring again 203. 26. The Children and Sir Nameless 204. . 205. 1. Cherry Ripe (arr. L. Lehmann for voice and piano) 206. 2. No. 2. Fairies 207. 3. No. 3. Keepsake Mill 208. 4. No. 4. If no one ever marries me 209. 5. No. 5. Stars 210. 6. No. 8. The Swing 211. 7