The Dicky Bird and the Owl: Victorian songs and ballads
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The Dicky Bird and the Owl: Victorian songs and ballads
Robert Tear (tenor) Benjamin Luxon (baritone) Andre Previn (piano)
[ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 November 2009
These songs are not just amusing museum relics, but living music full of lovely melody and grand sentiment, as pertinent to their age as Dowland and Monteverdi were to theirs.
Tracks:
The Dicky Bird and the Owl (Margaret A Sinclair / Arthur Sullivan).
The Trumpeter (J Francis Barron / J Airlie Dix)
Annabelle Lee (Edgar Allan Poe / Henry Leslie).
Cigarette (Charles H Taylor / Herbert E Haines)
Tom Bowling (Charles Dibdin arr. Alfred Moffat)
Saved from the Deep (Arthur Chapman / Arthur W Marchant)
The moon has raised her lamp above (John Oxenford / Julius Benedict)
Excelsior! (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Michael William Balfe)
Come into the garden Maud (Alfred Lord Tennyson / Balfe).
The Arab's Farewell to his Steed (Caroline Norton / John Blockley)
The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest (William Davenant / J L Hatton).
The Death of Nelson (Samuel J Arnold / John Braham.
Gendarmes' Duet (H B Farnie / Jacques Offenbach)
Watchman! what of the night? (James Sarjeant)
Home! Sweet Home! (John Howard Payne / Henry R Bishop)
The Snowy-Breasted Pearl (trad. Irish trans. George Petrie arr. Moffat)
I'll sing thee songs of Araby (W G Wills / Frederic Clay
The Wee Cooper o'Fife (trad. Scottish arr. Moffat).
