Compact discs.

Songs on cd. 1 & the Bennett & Rainier songs on cd. were first published on Argo analog discs ZRG 5418 & ZRG 5439 in 1964 & 1965, both reissued in 1965 on ZK 28--ZK 29; the Britten folk song settings on cd. 2 were first issued on [English] Decca LW 5122 in 1955, the remaining songs on cd. 2 (except for the Bennett & Rainier) about the same time on Decca LW 5241.

Program notes by Kenneth Chalmers inserted in container (no song texts).

Recorded in London at Decca Studios & Kingsway Hall, Mar. 1954 (cd. 2, tr. 1-9), Sept.-Oct. 1955 (cd. 2, tr. 10-21), Oct. 1963 (cd. 1, tr. 12-26 & cd. 2, tr. 22-25), & Dec. 1964 (cd. 1, tr. 1-11 & 27-33).

Eloquence

[cd. 1] To daffodils (Herrick) / Delius

The merry month of May (Dekker) / Moeran

Dream pedlary (Beddoes) ; Take, o take those lips away (Shakespeare) / Van Dieren

Piggesnie (anon.) ; Along the stream (Li-Tai-Po, adap. Cranmer-Byng) / Warlock

Bold William Taylor [trad.] / Grainger)

Two songs of William Blake. The echoing green ; The shepherd / William Busch

If thou wilt ease thine heart (Beddoes) ; Come, o come, my life's delight (Campion) / Busch

Tis but a week (Gerald Gould) ; Goldenhair (James Joyce) ; When your are old (Yeats) ; So perverse (Robert Bridges) ; Journey's end (Humbert Wolfe) / Bridge

The land of lost content [song cycle] (A.E. Housman) / John Ireland

The trellis (Aldous Huxley) / Ireland

Three songs [1926]. Love and friendship (Emily Brontë) ; Friendship in misfortune (anon.) ; The one hope (Gabriel Rossetti) / Ireland

Songs for Ariel (Shakespeare). Come unto these yellow sands ; Full fathom five ; Where the bee sucks / Tippett

Voices of prophets [song cycle], op. 41. For behold (Isaiah) ; So at length (John Milton) ; Rouse up (William Blake) ; Over the years (Peter Blackman) / Alan Bush

[cd. 2] Nine folksong settings. The Salley Gardens ; Little Sir William ; The miller of Dee ; Sweet Polly Oliver ; The bonny Earl o' Moray ; The ash grove ; A brisk young widow ; There's none to sooth ; Oliver Cromwell / Britten

Go not, happy day (Tennyson) / Bridge

Is my team ploughing? : from A Shropshire lad (Housman) / Butterworth

I have twelve oxen (anon.) / Ireland

In youth is pleasure (Wever) / Moeran

Yarmouth Fair (Collins) / Warlock

Persephone : from Twelve songs, op. 48 (Humbert Wolfe) / Holst

How love came in (Herrick) / Lennox Berkeley

Let the florid music praise : from On this island, op. 11 (Auden) / Britten

Three Chinese lyrics (Evangeline Dora Edwards, after anon. Chinese texts). Fishing ; Herd boy's song ; Pedlar [sic] of spells / Arthur Oldham

Love went a-riding (Mary Coleridge) / Bridge

Tom O'Bedlam's song (anon.) / Richard Rodney Bennett

Cycle of declamation (John Donne) [unacc.]. Wee cannot bid the fruits ; In the wombe of the earth ; Nunc, lento sonitu / Priaulx Rainier.

480 1273 (480 1274--480 1275) Decca

ZRG 5418 Argo

ZRG 5439 Argo

ZK 28--ZK 29 Argo

LW 5122 Decca

LW 5241 Decca

Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674 > Musical settings.

Blake, William, 1757-1827 > Musical settings.

Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936 > Musical settings.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Musical settings.

Donne, John, 1572-1631 > Musical settings.