Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Folk Songs of Britain
The Deller Consort & Desmond Dupré - Alfred Deller, dir.
Vanguard VRS 1055 [LP, mono]
Vanguard VSD 2058 [LP, stereo]
Vanguard VSL 11021 [LP, UK]
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics "Alfred Deller Edition" 08 5073 71 [CD, Europe]
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics "Alfred Deller Edition" 300 330-2 [CD, France]
Vanguard (Omega) Classics OVC 8109 [CD, NA]

Contents:

    Ralph Vaughan Williams:
  1. An Acre of Land
  2. A Farmer's Son So Sweet
  3. The Lover's Ghost
  4. The Turtle Dove
  5. John Dory
  6. Greensleeves
  7. The Jolly Ploughboy
  8. Wassail Song
  9. Down by the Riverside
  10. Bushes and Briars

    11. ----
  11. Just as the Tide was Flowing
  12. Ca' the Yowes
  13. My Boy Billy
  14. The Spring Time of the Year
  15. Ward the Pirate
  16. The Painful Plough
  17. The Dark-Eyed Sailor
  18. The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
  19. Loch Lomond

Playing time: 50' 51"

Performers:
The Deller Consort: Eileen Poulter (soprano), Mary Thomas (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone), Geoffrey Coleby (bass)
& Desmond Dupré (lute)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Recording site and date:
Baumgartner Hall, Vienna, Austria [07/1959];
Rel.: 1960 (VSL)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 420-180 (November 1995 (as 300 330))
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

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Pierre-F. Roberge