The Cruel Mother

The Cruel Mother

and Other English Ballads and Folksongs
The Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.
Vanguard VRS 1073 [LP, mono]
Vanguard (Omega) Classics OVC 8110 [CD, NA]

Contents:

Anon., from various collections:

1. When Cockleshells Turn Silver Bells
2. An Eriskay Love Lilt
3. Peggy Ramsay
4. Bushes and Briars
5. Brigg Fair
6. The Cruel Mother
7. A Sweet Country Life

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8. The Bitter Withy
9. Lang A-Growing
10. The Lover's Ghost
11. Lovely Joan
12. She Moved Through the Fair
13. A Brisk Young Lad he Courted Me
14. Geordie

Playing time: 42' 34"

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

Recording site and date:
Europe [1959];
Rel. 1961 [LP] & 1998 [CD]

Compilation:
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics "Alfred Deller Edition" 08 5072 71 The Cries of London - The Cruel Mother and other English Ballads and Folk Songs

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