Favourite English Songs by twentieth-century English composers

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Favourite English Songs by twentieth-century English composers
Felicity Lott (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)

[ Chandos Collect / CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 7 July 2002

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"beautifully sung, superlatively well-played."
(Gramophone)

'A totally delightful programme, beautifully sung, superlatively well-played.'
Gramophone

'Felicity Lott… sings them [the songs] with admirable understanding and obvious love… this is a record to which I shall frequently return.'
American Record Guide.



Felicity Lott's recital disc 'Favourite English Songs' has always been popular - tracks from this disc are still frequently requested on radio programmes. The collection combines some of the most popular songs in the British repertoire with less well-known items.

Felicity Lott is one of today's leading opera singers. She has received tremendous critical acclaim both for her song recitals (English and French in particular) and opera performances. Her recording of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs was voted Top Choice on Radio 3's 'Building a Library'.

Graham Johnson is one of the world's most famous accompanists and perfectly complements Felicity Lott's fresh interpretations.

Tracks:

Maude Valérie White (1855-1937)
1 So we'll go no more a-roving 4:38
Words by Lord Byron

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
2 Queen Mary's Song 4:29
Words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946)
3 The Cloths of Heaven. Op. 30 No. 3 2:29
from The Wind among the Reeds
Words by W.B. Yeats

Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
4 Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 1:24
from Three Songs
Words by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
5 Silent Noon 4:38
from The House of Life
Words by D.G. Rosetti

Dorothy Hogben (dates unknown)
6 The Shawl 4:23
Words by Lawrence Atkinson

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
7 Fish in the unruffled lakes 3:08
Words by W.H. Auden

Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
8 O lurcher-loving collier, Op. 53 No. 2 2:30
from Five Poems by W.H. Auden

Benjamin Britten
9 O Waly, Waly 3:58
from British Folk Songs, Volume 3 No. 6
Folksong from Somerset

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
10 The Sprig of Thyme 2:32
Folksong from Lincolnshire

Geoffrey Bush (1920-1998)
11 Sigh no more, ladies 1:56
from Eight Songs for High Voice
Words by William Shakespeare

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
12 Come Sing and Dance 3:52
Words from an old carol
13 Gavotte 3:05
Words by Sir Henry Newbolt

Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
14 Go not, happy day 1:22
Words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
15 My Own Country 2:48
from Three Belloc Songs
Words by Hilaire Belloc

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)
16 Silver, Op. 30 No. 2 3:16
Words by Walter de la Mare

Graham Peel (1877-1960)
17 The Early Morning 1:28
Words by Hilaire Belloc

Michael Head (1900-1976)
18 Sweet Chance, that led my steps abroad 2:17
from Songs of the Countryside
Words by W.H. Davies

Liza Lehman (1862-1918)
19 The Swing 1:25
from The Daisy-Chain
Words by R.L. Stevenson

Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson (1883-1950)
Lord Berners
20 Red Roses and Red Noses 2:23
Words by Lord Berners

Benjamin Britten
21 Come you not from Newcastle? 1:06
from Hullah's Song-Book (English)

William Walton (1902-1983)
22 Old Sir Faulk 2:05
Words by Dame Edith Sitwell