Ralph Vaughan Williams

Vaughan Williams

Folk Songs Album
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

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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)

Compilation:
Musical Concepts MC 193 [CDx7 + CD-ROM] Alfred Deller – The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Volume ONE: Folk Songs and Ballads

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

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