FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 02:03:41 | 485 Mb
Classical, Instrumental
It was probably Peter Pears, Britten’s partner in music and life, who drew the composer’s attention to the rich heritage of English folksong and its attractions, as a way to introduce texture, variety and a lighter tone to their song recitals together during the 1940s. According to the tenor, Britten ‘wanted to recreate these melodies with their texts for concert performance, to make them art-songs … he therefore takes the tune as if he had written it himself and thinks himself back as to how he would turn it into a song.’ Thus the piano parts are no mere accompaniments but highly wrought, deftly illustrative comments on the texts and stories of love and country life.
In cases such as The Foggy, Foggy Dew and O Waly, Waly, Britten’s arrangements have become better known than any ‘original’ version; they have assumed the identity of the song in the popular imagination, and the distinctive voice of Pears singing them imprinted itself on the imaginations of countless music-lovers in the second half of the last century. However, the songs retain their place in the concert repertoire of many young singers, often as more than encore material, and they admit a rich variety of interpretative approaches.
Tracklist:
01. I Wonder as I Wander
02. The Salley Gardens
03. Little Sir William
04. The Bonny Earl O’ Moray
05. O Can Ye Sew Cushions-
06. The Trees They Grow so High
07. The Ash Grove
08. Oliver Cromwell
09. The Crocodile
10. Greensleeves
11. The Holly and the Ivy
12. La Noel Passee
13. Voici Le Printemps
14. Fileuse
15. Le roi s’en va-t’en chasse
16. La belle est au jardin d’amour
17. Il est quelqu’un sur terre
18. Eho! Eho!
19. Quand j’etais chez mon pere
20. He Plough Boy
21. There’s None to Soothe
22. Sweet Polly Oliver
23. The Miller of Dee
24. The Foggy, Foggy Dew
25. The Stream in the Valley
26. O Waly, Waly
27. Come You Not from Newcastle-
28. Pray Goody
29. He Deaf Woman’s Courtship
30. At the Mid Hour of Night
31. Rich and Rare
32. Dear Harp of My Country!
33. The Last Rose of Summer
34. O the Sight Entrancing
35. Avenging and Bright
36. Sail On, Sail On
37. How Sweet the Answer
38. The Minstrel Boy
39. Oft in the Stilly Night
40. Soldier, Won’t You Marry Me-
41. The Brisk Young Widow
42. Sally in Our Alley
43. The Lincolnshire Poacher
44. Early One Morning
45. Ca’ the Yowes
46. Tom Bowling
47. Dink’s Song
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