Bushes and Briars
Folksong arrangements and Partsongs
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Bushes and Briars
Loch Lomond ¹
John Dory
Greensleeves
Ward, the Pirate
Ca' the Yowes ¹
The Unquiet Grave
The Seeds of Love ²
Early in the Spring
The Turtle Dove ³
An Acre of Land ⁴
Five English Folk Songs (1913)
¹ Ian Partridge (tenor)
² Geoffrey Shaw (baritone)
³ Christopher Keyte (baritone)
⁴ Susan Longfield (soprano)
London Madrigal Singers
Christopher Bishop
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The Homecoming, H120
Hymn to Manas, H100 No.3
Eight Canons for equal voices, H187
Six Choral Folk Songs, H136
Six Choruses for male voices, H186 ¹
A Dirge for Two Veterans, H121 ²
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Bushes and Briars
Wassail Song
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Five Part-Songs from the Greek Anthology, Op.45
The Wanderer (1923)
The Reveille, Op.54
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
A Dirge (1914)
Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
The Boar's Head (1923)
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Wanderer's Song (1908)
Peter Warlock (1894-1976)
The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi
The Lady's Birthday ³
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (1943) ³
¹ English Chamber Orchestra
² Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble
³ Jennifer Partridge (piano)
Baccholian Singers of London
Wynford Evans (tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Ian Partridge (tenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Ian Thompson (tenor)
Ian Humphris (baritone), John Huw Davies (baritone), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Brian Etheridge (bass), Terry Edwards (bass), Michael George (bass)
(2CD, flac image, log, cue, booklet)
(by courtesy of lebiega@Susato)