The Very Best of English Song

by Various Artists
Album · 3,230 Plays · 57 Songs · 3,230 Plays · 2:38:05

A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1967, 1994 Parlophone Records Limited

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Linden Lea
Gerald Moore, Janet Baker
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Songs Sacred and Profane: No. 4, The Salley Gardens
Gerald Moore, Janet Baker
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English Lyrics Set II: 1. O mistress mine (2003 Remaster) (2003 Remaster)
Gerald Moore, Janet Baker
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3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 1, Love's Philosophy, "The fountains mingle with the river" (Very quick and passionate)
Gerald Moore, Janet Baker
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Now sleeps the crimson petal Op. 3 No. 2
Geoffrey Parsons, Sir Thomas Allen
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In summertime on Bredon (piano accompaniment)
Geoffrey Parsons, Sir Thomas Allen
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Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad': I. Loveliest of trees (2001 Remaster) (2001 Remaster)
David Willison, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
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Down by the Salley Gardens (2001 Remastered Version) (2001 Remastered Version)
David Willison, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
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Black Stitchel (2001 Remastered Version) (2001 Remastered Version)
David Willison, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
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My Own Country (2001 Remastered Version) (2001 Remastered Version)
David Willison, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
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Passing By (2001 Remastered Version) (2001 Remastered Version)
David Willison, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
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Pretty Ring Time (2001 Remastered Version) (2001 Remastered Version)
David Willison, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
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10 Blake Songs: No. 5, The Lamb
Ian Partridge, Janet Craxton
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Ten Blake Songs: No. 6, The Shepherd, "How sweet is the Shepherd's sweet lot!" (Allegretto)
Ian Partridge
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The House of Life: No. 2, Silent Noon
Julius Drake, Ian Bostridge
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Come away, death, Op. 6 No. 1
Julius Drake, Ian Bostridge
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Since we loved, Op. 13 No. 7
Julius Drake, Ian Bostridge
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Earth and Air and Rain Op. 15: 6. Rollicum-Rorum
Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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Sea Fever
Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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Trade Winds (Salt-Water Ballads No. 2)
Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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Songs of the Sea Op. 91: I. Drake's Drum - Tempo di marcia moderato (version with piano) [2003 Remaster] (2003 Remaster)
Nina Walker, Robert Lloyd
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Songs of the Sea Op. 91: V. The Old Superb - Allegro vivace (version with piano) [2003 Remaster] (2003 Remaster)
Nina Walker, Robert Lloyd
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Four Indian Love Lyrics: 3. Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar (Kashmiri Song)
Jack Byfield, Frederick Harvey
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Bless this House
Sir Philip Ledger, Janet Baker
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Balulalow: "O my deir hert, young Jesus sweit"
Sir Philip Ledger, Janet Baker
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Tom Bowling
André Previn
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Home! Sweet Home!
André Previn, Robert Tear
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Come Into The Garden, Maud
André Previn
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Folksong Arrangements, Book 3 "British Isles": No. 5, The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Robert Tear, Sir Philip Ledger
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Folksong Arrangements, Book 3 "British Isles": No. 1, The Plough Boy
Robert Tear, Sir Philip Ledger
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Façade: XIX. Popular Song
Sir Neville Marriner, Academy Of St Martin In The Fields
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Greensleeves (solo lute verse at end cut) [1995 Remastered Version] (1995 Remastered Version)
Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré
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Two songs: It was a lover and his lasse (The First Booke of Ayres or Little Short Songs) [As you like it]
Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré
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Two songs - O mistress mine (arr. from The First Booke of Consort Lessons) [Twelfth Night]
Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré
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The Willow Song (Othello) [1995 Remastered Version] (1995 Remastered Version)
Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré
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Where the bee sucks (The Tempest) [1995 Remastered Version] (1995 Remastered Version)
Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré
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Full fathom five (The Tempest) [1995 Remastered Version] (1995 Remastered Version)
Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré
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Psalmes, Sonnets and Songs: No. 32, Lulla, Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby
Michael Chance, Fretwork
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Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis (Ye sacred muses)
Michael Chance
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The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: Sorrow, stay!
Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
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Can she excuse my wrongs? (The First Booke of Songes or Ayres)
Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
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The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: Awake, sweet love (The First Booke of Songes)
Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
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Woeful heart (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)
Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
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Shall I sue? (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)
Charles Daniels, David Miller
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Me, me and none but me (The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires)
Charles Daniels, David Miller
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Flow, my tears (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)
Charles Daniels, David Miller
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King Arthur, Z. 628, Act V: Song. "Fairest Isle"
Nancy Argenta, Nigel North
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Oedipus, Z. 583: No. 2, Song. "Music for a While"
Nancy Argenta, John Toll
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The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act III: "I Attempt from Love's Sickness" (Zempoalla)
Nancy Argenta, Paul Nicholson
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If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379
Nancy Argenta
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Now That the Sun Hath Veiled His Light, Z. 193
Nancy Argenta, Paul Nicholson
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Yarmouth Fair: "As I rode down to Yarmouth fair"
Ernest Lush, Owen Brannigan
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The Smuggler's Song (2003 Remastered Version) (2003 Remastered Version)
Gerald Moore, Owen Brannigan
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Down Below (2003 Remaster) (2003 Remaster)
Donald Swann, Ian Wallace
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A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) [2003 Remaster] (2003 Remaster)
Donald Swann, Ian Wallace
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The Wart Hog (2003 Remaster) (2003 Remaster)
Donald Swann, Ian Wallace
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The Hippopotamus Song (Introduced by Michael Flanders) [1991 Remaster] (1991 Remaster)
Donald Swann, Michael Flanders

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