Janet Baker sings Haydn, Beethoven : Scottish folk song arrangements, English songs.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Baker, Janet, singer.

Contributor:

Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999, instrumentalist.

Malcolm, George, 1917-1997, instrumentalist.

Pople, Ross, instrumentalist.

Spencer, Robert, 1932-1997, instrumentalist.

Isepp, Martin, performer.

Gauntlett, Ambrose, instrumentalist.

Whittaker, Douglas, instrumentalist.

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Songs (Medium voice) with piano.

Songs (Medium voice) with instrumental ensemble.

Folk songs, Scots.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[England] : Testament, [2002]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Contents:

Scottish folk song arrangements. The brisk young lad (3:06) ; O bonny lass (1:55) ; The white cockade (:50) ; John Anderson (1:36) ; The ploughman dg (1:13) ; Duncan Gray (1:20) ; My boy Tammy (3:36) ; Shepherds, I have lost my love (1:53) ; Up in the morning early (1:37) ; Green grow the rashes (2:08) ; Love will find out the way (2:24) ; Sleepy bodie (1:29) ; O can ye sew cushions (2:32) ; The birks of Abergeldie (1:01) ; My ain kind dearie (1:54) ; I'm oʻer young to marry yet (:59) ; Cumbernauld House (:50) ; The flower of Edinburgh (2:49) / Franz Joseph Haydn

Scottish folk song arrangements. Polly Stewart (1:26) ; The sweetest lad was Jamie (2:39) ; Faithfu' Johnie (4:12) ; Cease your funning (1:35) ; Bonny laddie, highland laddie (1:36) / Ludwig van Beethoven

Come again / John Dowland (2:24)

Never love unless you can (1:08) ; Oft have I sighed (2:37) ; If thou longst so much to learn (1:50) ; Fain would I wed (1:14) / Thomas Campian

Sleep, Adam, sleep (1:55) ; Lord, what is man? (5:38) / Henry Purcell

Tell me lovely shepherd / William Boyce (2:07)

My lovely Celia / George Monro (2:20)

Where the bee sucks / Thomas Arne (1:49).

Participant:

Dame Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano ; with Yehudi Menuhin, violin (tracks 1-24), Ambrose Gauntlett, viola da gamba (tracks 30-34), Ross Pople, violoncello (tracks 20-24), Robert Spencer, lute (tracks 25-29), Douglas Whittaker, flute (track 34), George Malcom, harpsichord (tracks 1-19), piano (tracks 20-24), Martin Isepp, harpsichord (tracks 30-34).

Notes:

Recorded at No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London May 27, 29 & 31, 1975 (Haydn & Beethoven) and Feb. 9-11, 1967.

Compact disc.

Biographical notes on the performer by Alan Blyth in English with German and French translations and English texts (19 p. : ill.) insertd in container.

Contains:

Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809. Songs, violin, continuo accompaniment. Selections

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Schottische Lieder, op. 108. Selections

Dowland, John, 1563?-1626. Songs or ayres, 1st book. Come againe sweet love doth now envite

Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620. Ayres, 3rd book. Never love unlesse you can

Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620. Ayres, 3rd book. Oft have I sighed.

Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620. Ayres, 3rd book. If thou long'st so much to learne

Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620. Ayres, 4th book. Fain would I wed.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Lord, what is man?, soprano, continuo

Boyce, William, 1711-1779. Solomon. Tell me lovely shepherd

Monro, George. My lovely Celia.

Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778. Tempest. Where the bee sucks

OCLC:

51959022

Publisher Number:

SBT 1241 Testament