Britten: Folk-Song Arrangements
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Composer or Director: Benjamin Britten
Label: HMV
Magazine Review Date: 6/1985
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Catalogue Number: ED290352-1
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Little Sir William |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The Bonny Earl o' Moray |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: O can ye sew cushions? |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The trees they grow so high |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The ash grove |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Oliver Cromwell (also unison vv and piano). VOLUME(pub 1946): |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse (The King goes a-huntin |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: La belle est au jardin d'amour |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Quand j'étais chez mon père. VOLUME 3 BRITISH: |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The plough boy |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Sweet Polly Oliver |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The foggy foggy dew |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: O waly waly |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Come you not from Newcastle? VOLUME 4 IRISH (pub |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The minstrel boy |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The brisk young widow |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The Lincolnshire poacher |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Ca' the yowes. VOLUME 6 BRITISH (guitar: pub 1961) |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The Salley Gardens (also unison vv and piano) |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
Composer or Director: Benjamin Britten
Label: HMV
Magazine Review Date: 6/1985
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Catalogue Number: ED290352-4
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Little Sir William |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The Bonny Earl o' Moray |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: O can ye sew cushions? |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The trees they grow so high |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The ash grove |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Oliver Cromwell (also unison vv and piano). VOLUME(pub 1946): |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse (The King goes a-huntin |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: La belle est au jardin d'amour |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Quand j'étais chez mon père. VOLUME 3 BRITISH: |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The plough boy |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Sweet Polly Oliver |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The foggy foggy dew |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: O waly waly |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Come you not from Newcastle? VOLUME 4 IRISH (pub |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The minstrel boy |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The brisk young widow |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The Lincolnshire poacher |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Ca' the yowes. VOLUME 6 BRITISH (guitar: pub 1961) |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
| Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The Salley Gardens (also unison vv and piano) |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Philip Ledger, Piano Robert Tear, Tenor |
Author:
The obvious comparison can hardly be avoided, especially as the Pears/Britten recordings of 1962 have recently come back into circulation (Decca 411 802-1DW). A singer completely independent of Pears's style and method, and less akin in tone colouring, might avoid it, but Tear constantly calls Pears to mind and one cannot help noting that, if so much is achieved, so much more is missed. For example, in The Bonny Earl o' Moray Pears laments with a tragic intensity which Tear never matches, though he is vivid enough locally (as in the bitter malediction upon ''Huntley'' and the tender softening of ''he was a queen's love''). More marked is the sense of loss as one turns from Britten's playing of the accompaniments, so crisp and impulsive in The brisk young widow, so poignant in the remote, tormented harmonies of the second verse of The Ash Grove. Britten's slower speed in this, and in Sweet Polly Oliver, makes the later versions sound relatively prosaic; and no doubt all of this is relative, for when there is no comparison to be made (with The Lincolnshire poacher and The trees they grow so high, for example) Tear and Ledger seem admirable. In one respect this HMV reissue is certainly to be preferred to the Decca—it prints the texts.'
Britten: Folk-Song Arrangements
Britten: Folk-Song Arrangements
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