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| An Anthology of English Song. Performed
by Janet Baker, contralto, and Martin Isepp, piano. [London]: Saga Classics
EC 3340-2, 1996. Sound recording. [Contents: Sleep and I will
go with My Father A-Ploughing, and songs by Dunhill, Vaughan Williams,
Ireland, Head, Gibbs, Warlock, Howells, and Finzi. D.2a] Borders
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| A Century of English Song, Volume 3. Performed by Sarah Leonard, soprano, Jonathan Veira, baritone, and Malcom Martineau, Piano. Somm Recordings CD224, 2001. Sound Recording. [Includes Gurney’s Snow, I shall be ever maiden, I will go with my Father a-ploughing, Cradle Song, Plughman singing, When Death to either shall come, On the Downs, and Sowing (last three sung by Veira, others by Leonard); also songs by Roger Quilter and Peter Warlock. More details here. John Steane, in the July 2001 Gramophone review, particularly notes that Leonard’s “singing gives much pleasure in such songs as Gurney's Snow, Warlock's Take, O take those lips away and Quilter's Dream Valley.”] Somm Recordings |  |
| English Orchestral Songs. Performed by Christopher Maltman, baritone, Martyn Brabbins, conductor, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. London: Hyperion 67065, 1999. Sound recording. [Recorded in City Hall, Glasgow, Scotland. Includes Gurney’s In Flanders, By a Bierside, and from Five Elizabethan Songs: Under the Greenwood Tree, Orpheus, Sleep, and Spring. Also features songs by Charles Hubert Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford, and Gerald Finzi. D.53] Amazon - Borders*R - CDUniverse - ClassicalCDReviews - Crotchet - Hyperion*N - RecordsInternational*R |  |
| The English Songbook. Performed by Ian Bostridge, tenor, and Julius Drake, Piano. EMI Classics, 56830, 1999. [Contents: Sleep and I will go with My Father A-Ploughing, traditional songs, and songs by Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Quilter, Finzi, Dunhill, William Brown, Somervell, Grainger, Parry, Delius, Warlock, and Britten. D.54] CDUniverse | |
| Gurney: Ludlow and Teme: A Song-Cycle & Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge. Performed by Martyn Hill, tenor, Graham Johnson, piano, and the Coull String Quartet. London: Hyperion 002016 and 002234, 1981. Sound recording. [Contents: Ludlow and Teme and a song cycle by Vaughan Williams. D.9, H.21] Amazon - Borders - CDNow - CDUniverse - CDWorld - EveryCD |
Music of England. Performed by Janet Baker,
contralto, Martin Isepp, piano, and others. Saga Classics 3353, 1994. Sound
recording. [Contents: I will go with My Father A-Ploughing, and
pieces by Butterworth, Delius, Holst, and Vaughan Williams. D.31c] Borders
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| My Heart is Like a Singing Bird: English Songs
By Parry, Stanford, Quilter, Warlock, and Gurney. Performed by
Sarah Leonard, soprano, and Malcolm Martineau, piano. London: IMP Classics
(Pickwick Group) PCD 1029, 1992. Sound recording. [Contents: Five Elizabethan
Songs: Orpheus, Tears, Under the Greenwood Tree, Sleep, and Spring,
and songs by Parry, Stanford, and Warlock. D.11] Amazon
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| A Shropshire Lad: Three Song Cycles to Poems by A. E. Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad.” Performed by Adrian Thompson, tenor, Stephen Varcoe, baritone, Iain Burnside, piano, and the Delmé String Quartet. London: Hyperion CDA66385, 1990. Sound recording. [Contents: Western Playland (Varcoe, including Reveille, Loveliest of Trees, Golden Friends, Twice a Week, The Aspens, Is my Team Ploughing, The Far Country, and March), and Ludlow and Teme (Thompson, including When Smoke stood up from Ludlow, Far in a Western Brookland, ‘Tis Time, I think, Ludlow Fair, On the Idle Hill of Summer, When I was One and Twenty, and The Lent Lily), and a song cycle by Vaughan Williams. D.20, H.27] Hyperion |  |
| Songs by Finzi and His Friends. Performed
by Stephen Roberts, baritone, Ian Partridge, tenor, and Clifford Benson,
piano. London: Hyperion A66015, 1981. Sound recording. [Contents: (Gurney
songs are performed by Roberts; recording includes other performances by
Partridge) Sleep, Down by the Salley Gardens, and Hawk and Buckle,
and songs by Finzi, Milford, Farrar, and Gill. D.16, H.19] Borders
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| Songs from A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.
Performed by Graham Trew, baritone, Roger Vignoles, piano, and the Coull
String Quartet. Eltham, London: Meridian CDE 84185, 1989, 1997, and 1998.
Sound recording. [Contents: Western Playland (including Reveille,
Loveliest of Trees, Golden Friends, Twice a Week, The Aspens, Is my Team
Ploughing, The Far Country, and March), and songs by Somervell,
Butterworth, and Peel. D.21] Borders
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| Swingle Singers: Pretty Ringtime. Performed by the Swingle Singers. Swingle Singers 6214. Sound recording. [“Most of this music was meant to be performed by piano and voice but lends itself wonderfully well to the group's capacities.” Contents: choral performances of Cradle Song, [Down by] The Salley Gardens, I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing, and Sleep, and other pieces by Peter Warlock, Ivor Gurney, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi, Frank Bridge and John Ireland.] Primarily A Cappella*R |  |
| War’s Embers. Performed by Martyn Hill, tenor, Stephen Varcoe, baritone, Michael George, bass, and Clifford Benson, piano. Notes by Michael Hurd. London, England: Hyperion CDA 66261-66262, 1988. Sound recording. [Contents: In Flanders, Ha’nacker Mill, Black Stitchel, By a Bierside, Blaweary, The Twa Corbies, The Fiddler of Dooney, Goodnight to the Meadow, Severn Meadows, Hawk and Buckle, The Ship, Five Elizabethan Songs: Orpheus, Tears, Under the Greenwood Tree, Sleep, Spring, The Boat is Chafing, Cathleen ni Houlihan, Edward, Edward, The Night of Trafalgar, Even such is Time, Thou didst Delight my Eyes, Most Holy Night, You are my Sky, Last Hours, To Violets, Nine of the Clock, and Epitaph in Old Mode, and songs by Browne, Butterworth, Farrar, Finzi, Kelly. D.27, H.25] Amazon*S - CDNow*S - CDUniverse | 
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| When I was One and Twenty: Butterworth and Gurney Songs. Performed by Benjamin Luxon, baritone, and David Willison, piano. Colchester, England: Chandos Records CHAN 8831, 1990. Sound recording. [Contents: Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes, The Apple Orchard, The Fields are Full, The Twa Corbies, Severn Meadows, Desire in Spring, Ha’nacker Mill, Down by the Salley Gardens, The Scribe, Hawk and Buckle, On the Downs, The Fiddle [sic] of Dooney, In Flanders, The Folly of being Comforted, I Praise the Tender Flower, Black Stitchel, An Epitaph, By a Bierside, Cranham Woods (Walking Song), and Sleep, and songs by Butterworth. D.12, H.29] Amazon - Borders - CDNow - CDUniverse - EveryCD |  |
