The Great EMI Recordings - English Songs: Dowland, Purcell, Arne, Parry, Stanford, Walton, Britten

Dame Janet Baker

2013-06-28 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  The Firste Booke of Songes, 1597: No. 17, Come Again, Sweet Love doth Now Invite
  2:29
• 2
  The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres, 1617: No. 14, Neuer loue vnlesse you can
  1:10
• 3
  The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres, 1617: No. 1, Oft have I sigh'd for him that hears me not
  2:36
• 4
  The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres, 1617: No. 7, If thou long'st so much to learn
  1:52
• 5
  The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres, 1617: No. 25, Fain would I wed a fair young man
  1:18
• 6
  Hymn "Sleep, Adam", Z. 195: "Sleep, Adam, sleep and take thy rest"
  1:54
• 7
  Hymn "Lord, what is Man?", Z. 192: "Lord, what is man, lost man"
  5:41
• 8
  My lovely Celia: "My lovely Celia, heav'nly fair"
  2:25
• 9
  Tell me, lovely shepherd (Arr. Poston)
  2:10
• 10
  Where the bee sucks (from "Nine Shakespeare Songs by Thomas Augustine Arne, 1763")
  1:51
• 11
  Select Ayres and Dialogues, 1669, Book 3: No. 29, A Dialogue Upon a Kisse, "Among thy fancies tell me this … I shall resolve you"
  3:32
• 12
  A Dialogue between Charon and Philomel: "Charon! O gentle Charon! … What voice so sweet" (Philomel, Charon)
  4:20
• 13
  A Dialogue between Daphne and Strephon: "Come, my Daphne … 'Tis Strephon calls" (Strephon, Daphne)
  1:50
• 14
  Giù nei Tartari Regni, Duet, HWV 187: "Giù nei Tartarei regni v'andrem madonna" (Soprano, Bass)
  7:05
• 15
  Quando in calma ride il mare, Duet, HWV 191: "Quando in calma ride il mare" (Soprano, Bass)
  6:13
• 16
  Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Come Ye Sons of Art), Z. 323: No. 3, Duet, "Sound the trumpet, sound, till around" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)
  1:50
• 17
  Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country, Incidental Music, Z. 585: No. 2, Song, "My dearest, my fairest" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)
  3:05
• 18
  The Maid's Last Prayer or Any Rather Than Fail, Incidental Music, Z. 601: No. 2, Song, "No, resistance is but vain" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)
  7:15
• 19
  King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2 Scene 2: No. 15, Air, "Shepherd, leave decoying" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)
  1:08
• 1
  English Lyrics, Set No. 2: No. 1, O Mistress Mine, "O mistress mine, where are you roaming?" (Allegretto)
  1:31
• 2
  English Lyrics, Set No. 5: No. 2, Proud Maisie, "Proud Maisie is in the wood" (Allegretto)
  1:48
• 3
  La Belle dame sans merci: "O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms"
  6:11
• 4
  Linden Lea - A Dorset Song: "Within the woodlands, flow'ry gladed" (Andante con moto)
  2:53
• 5
  3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 1, Love's Philosophy, "The fountains mingle with the river" (Very quick and passionate)
  1:28
• 6
  Songs Sacred and Profane: No. 4, The Salley Gardens, "Down by the Salley Gardens" (At speaking pace)
  2:20
• 7
  The Fields Are Full: "The fields are full of summer still"
  1:45
• 8
  Pretty Ring Time: "It was a lover and his lass"
  1:23
• 9
  Rest: "On me to rest, my bird my bird"
  2:16
• 10
  Corpus Christi Carol (Arr. for High Voice of the 5th Variation from "A Boy Was Born", Op. 3)
  2:56
• 11
  Comin' Thro' the Rye (Children's Song, Arr. Robert Burns)
  2:46
• 12
  5 Shakespeare Songs: No. 1, Orpheus, "Orpheus with his lute made trees" (Allegro moderato)
  3:39
• 13
  English Lyrics, Set No. 2: No. 1, O Mistress Mine, "O mistress mine, where are you roaming?" (Allegretto)
  1:34
• 14
  Bushes and Briars, Roud 1027 (English Folksong from Essex, Unaccompanied Version)
  2:56
• 15
  5 Shakespeare Songs, Set No. 2, Op. 23: III. It was a lover and his lass (Allegretto moderato)
  2:37
• 16
  Songs Sacred and Profane: No. 4, The Salley Gardens, "Down by the Salley Gardens" (At speaking pace)
  2:17
• 17
  Irish Country Songs, Volume I: No. 7, I know where I'm goin' (Moderato)
  2:25
• 18
  5 Traditional Songs of France: III. Me soui mesocu danso, "Me suis mis en danse" (after Traditional from Quercy)
  2:01
• 19
  Gavotte: "Memories long in music sleeping"
  3:19
• 20
  Let Us Garlands Bring, on Poems by Shakespeare, Op. 18: V. It was a lover and his lass
  2:53
• 21
  Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes (Arr. Ronald Kinloch Anderson)
  2:57
• 22
  Spring Symphony, Op. 44, Pt. 2: VIII. Out of the lawn lie in bad (Alto, Chorus)
  6:30
• 23
  Troilus and Cressida, Act 2 Scene 1: "How can I sleep?" (Cressida)
  1:46
• 24
  Troilus and Cressida, Act 2 Scene 1: "At the haunted end of the day" (Cressida)
  2:41
• 25
  Troilus and Cressida, Act 3 Final Scene: "Diomede!... Father!... Pandarus!" (Cressida)
  4:24