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Table of Contents:

• King David / Herbert Howells ; text, Walter de la Mare (5:01)
• It was a lover and his lass / Roger Quilter ; text, William Shakespeare (2:21)
• Down by the salley gardens / Ivor Gurney ; text, William Butler Yeats (2:46)
• Silent noon / Ralph Vaughan Williams ; text, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (4:23)
• Lord, what is man? / Henry Purcell & Benjamin Britten ; William Fuller (5:55)
• Job's curse / Henry Purcell & Benjamin Britten ; text, Jeremy Taylor (5:42)
• Linden Lea / R. Vaughan Williams ; text, William Barnes (2:25)
• Come away, death (2:53) ; O mistress mine (1:31) ; Blow, blow, thou winter wind (2:32) / R. Quilter ; text, William Shakespeare
• At Middle-Field Gate in February / Gerald Finzi (3:10) ; Text, Thomas Hardy
• Widow bird / H. Howells (1:48) ; text, Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Horseman / Lennox Berkeley ; text, Walter de la Mare (1:11)
• Little boy lost / H. Howells ; text, William Blake (2:12)
• Belle dame sans merci / Charles Villiers Stanford ; text, John Keats (6:09)
• Bright is the ring of words / R. Vaughan Williams ; text, Robert Louis Stevenson (1:50)
• Sigh / G. Finzi ; Text, Thomas Hardy (3:28)
• Jillian of Berry / Peter Warlock ; Text, Anonymous (0:34)
• Set in the manner of Handel / Victor Hely-Hutchinson (2:20) ; Text, Anonymous
• Take, o take those lips away / R. Quilter (1:25) ; Text, William Shakespeare
• Since we loved / G. Finzi ; Text, Robert Bridges (1:17)
• Hey, ho, the wind and the rain / R. Quilter (1:51) ; Text, William Shakespeare

• Music for a while / Henry Purcell & Michael Tippett ; Text, John Dryden & Nathaniel Lee (3:37).

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Contributors:

Mehta, Bejun , singer

De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956 , author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 , author

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 , author

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 , author

Fuller, William, 1608-1675 , author

Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667 , author

Barnes, William, 1801-1886 , author

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 , author

Drake, Julius, 1959- , instrumentalist

Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998 , arranger of music

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 , arranger of music

Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692 , author

Dryden, John, 1631-1700 , author

Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930 , author

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 , author

Keats, John, 1795-1821 , author

Blake, William, 1757-1827 , author

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Sung in English.

Other Related Resources:

Source record: Down by the salley gardens [by Mehta, B.] (Arles [France] : Harmonia Mundi, ℗2011 — LCCN 2014621822; OCLC Number 754143124)

Subjects:

De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956 — Musical settings

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 — Musical settings

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 — Musical settings

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 — Musical settings

Fuller, William, 1608-1675 — Musical settings

Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667 — Musical settings

Barnes, William, 1801-1886 — Musical settings

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 — Musical settings

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 — Musical settings

Blake, William, 1757-1827 — Musical settings

Keats, John, 1795-1821 — Musical settings

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 — Musical settings

Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930 — Musical settings

Dryden, John, 1631-1700 — Musical settings

Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692 — Musical settings

Songs (Medium voice) with piano

Song cycles

Song cycles — Excerpts

De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882

Fuller, William, 1608-1675

Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667

Barnes, William, 1801-1886

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

Blake, William, 1757-1827

Keats, John, 1795-1821

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930

Dryden, John, 1631-1700

Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692

Genres:

Songs

Song cycles

Excerpts

Arrangements (Music)

Ballads

Art music

Musical settings

Performers:

Bejun Mehta, countertenor ; Julius Drake, piano.

Performance Medium:

2 performers: countertenor voice; piano

General Notes:

The 5th and 6th works are realizations by Benjamin Britten of Purcell songs for voice and continuo ; the 8th-10th works comprise a song cycle ; the last work is a realization by Michael Tippett of a Purcell song for voice and continuo.
Recorded 2010 September Teldex Studio, Berlin.
Description based on: Hard copy version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

Other Standard Numbers:

International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021230
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021210
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021190
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021180
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021170
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021160
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021150
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021140
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021130
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021120
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021110
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021100
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021090
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021080
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021070
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021060
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021050
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021040
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021030
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021220
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021200
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021020
International Standard Recording Code: FRZ141021010
Publisher Number, Harmonia Mundi: HMC902093DI

OCLC Numbers:

1042564289