Field, Eileen: The Boosey & Hawkes Song Collection vol 2

• A young maid stood in her father's grave (arr. Hughes)
• E'en as a lovely rose (Bridge)
• I have twelve oxen ( Ireland)
• If There are Angels (McDowall, Cecilia)
• Infant joy (Clarke, Rebecca)
• Lark in the clear air (Rose, Michael)
• Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams)
• Little Horses (arr. Copland)
• Long time ago (arr. Copland)
• Mamble (Head)
• O mistress mine (Quilter)
• O your eyes are dark and beautiful (Seiber)
• See, see mine own sweet jewel (Rose, Michael)
• She moved thro' the fair (arr Hughes)
• Sky above the roof (Vaughan Williams)
• Spell of Creation (Field, Christopher)
• Spring sorrow (Ireland)
• Sweet Suffolk owl (Poston, Elizabeth)
• The apron of flowers (Ferguson, Howard)
• The Birds (Britten)
• The ships of Arcady (Head)
• The swing (Lehmann, Liza)
• The widow bird (Howells)
• There Was a Naughty Boy (Ayres, Paul)
• Trade Winds (Keel)
• Two Songs: In praise of Ale (Dray, Robert)
• Two Songs: Little Elegy (Rorem, Ned)
• Two Songs: On a singing girl (Rorem, Ned)
• Two Songs: The Virgin's cradle song (Dray, Robert)

Curiously starting with a song copyrighted in 1900 and more understandably ending with several copyrighted in 2005, the Boosey & Hawkes Song Collection Volume 2 1901 -- 2004 is full of good things, some not easily available elsewhere. Vaughan William’s take on Verlaine, Keel’s superlative Trade Winds, Britten’s The Birds, Howells’s The Widow Bird, Poston’s Sweet Suffolk Owl and two good Irelands make it worth getting. . . . The American selection from Copland and Rorem is pretty good. There are some excellent arrangements of folksongs, in particular two by Herbert Hughes.

(Sheet Music Review)

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