 
Benjamin Britten Songs
BIS-CD-1510
DDD
Stereo
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 68'11"
Tracks: 30
Booklet pages: 32
© 2008 BIS Records AB
Reviewer: Robert Anderson
Review of Benjamin Britten Songs published on 15 April 2012
Listen: Britten: Ca' the yowes (track 30, 0:00-0:58)
Daniel Norman, tenor
Christopher Gould, piano
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976):
Winter Words Op 52 (1953) - lyrics and ballads of Thomas Hardy:
1 At day-close in November
2 Midnight on the Great Western (or 'The Journeying Boy')
3 Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
4 The Little Old Table
5 The Choirmaster's Burial (or 'The Tenor Man's Story')
6 Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
7 At the Railway Station, Upway (or 'The Convict and Boy with the Violin')
8 Before Life and After
Four Burns Songs (1975) - texts: Robert Burns, piano arrangements: Colin Matthews:
9 Afton Water Op 92 No 5
10 Wee Willie Gray Op 92 No 3
11 The Winter Op 92 No 6
12 My Hoggie Op 92 No 4
Who are these Children? Op 84 (1969) - lyrics, rhymes and riddles by William Soutar
13 A Riddle (The Earth)
14 A Laddie's Sang
15 Nightmare
16 Black Day
17 Bed-time
18 Slaughter
19 A Riddle (The child you were)
20 The Larky Lad
21 Who are these Children?
22 Supper
23 The Children
24 The Auld Aik
25 If it's ever Spring again - text: Thomas Hardy
26 Dawtie's Devotion - text: William Soutar
27 The Gully - text: William Soutar
28 The Children and Sir Nameless - text: Thomas Hardy
29 Tradition - text: William Soutar
30 Ca'the yowes (from Folk Song Arrangements Vol 5) - text: Robert Burns
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