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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