Favourite English Songs

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 Lehmann (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
63:05
Felicity Lott soprano
Graham Johnson piano
Recorded in:
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk
24-26 October 1988
Producer(s)
Brian Couzens
Sound Engineer(s)
Ralph Couzens
Ben Connellan (Assistant)
Format: DDD
Bit Rate: 24 Bit / 96K