Britten: Complete Folk Songs for voice and piano

Britten: Complete Folk Songs for voice and piano

5028421960098 (Brilliant Classics, CD)

NEW RELEASE
Tracks: 47
Booklet pages: 8
℗ 2021 Brilliant Classics
© 2021 Brilliant Classics
Main country of recording: Italy
Reviewer: Giuseppe Pennisi
Review of Britten: Complete Folk Songs for voice and piano published on 7 March 2021

Mark Milhofer, tenor
Marco Scolastra, piano
Lorna Windsor, soprano (tracks 29 and 40)
Umberto Aleandri, cello (track 25)

Traditional, arranged by Benjamin Britten:

1 I wonder as I wander

2 The Salley Gardens

3 Little Sir William

4 The Bonny Earl o' Moray

5 O can ye sew cushions?

6 The trees they grow so high

7 The Ash Grove

8 Oliver Cromwell

9 The Crocodile

10 Greensleeves

11 The Holly and the Ivy

12 La Noël passée

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 père

20 The 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 The 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

Recorded 22-24 August 2019 (tracks 1-25) and 6-8 August 2020 (tracks 26-47) at Theater Clitunno, Trevi (PG), Italy