Irish Dew

By the way, Ms. Thompson was born in this country of Anglo-Welsh-Irish background (as the copywriter tells us). Part of her technique is to let her ornamentation come out of the melody rather than merely appending it, and to execute her chords with a "downward roll" rather than an upward as in classical harp playing.

Included in the program are "Foggy Dew," "Watching the Wheat," "Pull Down the Shade," and "Cailin O Chois tSure Me" ("Cailin" means "girl" from which the Irish begat "colleen"; and that fourth word is not a typo!), which is mentioned by Shakespeare in "Henry V" in a garbled form and which is sung by Alfred Deller on an old set of Shakespeare songs. On the whole as good an account of this material as you will ever hear. Notes about each individual song are thoughtfully provided as well as general comments on the music.

Average customer rating: A century of British art songs to delight those who love them

English Song Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Gibbs, Cecil Armstrong | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Holst | Holst, Gustav | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Walton | Walton, Sir William | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Warlock | Warlock, Peter | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: A Treasury of English Song Favorite English Songs Silent Noon Songs by Roger Quilter Bryn Terfel - The Vagabond & other songs by Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Finzi & Ireland ASIN: B0002JEG6I Release Date: 2005-03-22

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1. A Soft Day - Bernadette Greevy
2. Irish Skies - Bernadette Greevy
3. Cherry Ripe - Janice Watson
4. Mustard And Cress - Neal Davies
5. The Lily Of A Day - Janice Watson
6. Henry King - Neal Davies
7. Fain Would I Change That Note - Graham Johnson
8. In Summer-Time On Bredon - Christopher Maltman
9. The Lads In Their Hundreds - Christopher Maltman
10. Among The Rocks - Graham Johnson
11. It Was A Lover And His Lass - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
12. The Water Mill - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
13. On Wenlock Edge - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
14. The Call - Graham Johnson
15. Silent Noon - Graham Johnson
16. Now In These Fairylands - Philip Langridge
17. The Dream-City - Philip Langridge
18. Margrete's Cradle Song - Susan Gritton
19. The Heart Worships - Christopher Maltman
20. Take, O Those Lips Away - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
21. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal - Graham Johnson
22. Love Calls Through The Summer Night - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
23. I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing - Graham Johnson
24. The Rio Grande (Capstan Shanty) - Ian Partridge
25. Theodore, Or The Pirate King - Ian Partridge
26. A Long Time Ago (Hilliard's Shanty) - Ian Partridge
27. Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be? - Bernadette Greevy

Tracks:

1. The Grenadier - Richard Edgar-Wilson
2. The Young Lover - Richard Edgar-Wilson
3. Betty And Johnny - Richard Edgar-Wilson
4. Rise Up And Reach The Stars - Richard Edgar-Wilson
5. The Bells - Nik Hancock-Child
6. Ann's Cradle Song - Nik Hancock-Child
7. As I Lay In The Early Sun - Nik Hancock-Child
8. The Cherry Tree - Nik Hancock-Child
9. Dusk - Nik Hancock-Child
10. Peter Warlock's Fancy - John Constable
11. The Frostbound Wood - John Constable
12. Chopcherry - John Constable
13. A Sad Song - John Constable
14. Rutterkin - John Constable
15. Bethlehem Down - John Constable
16. Wapping Old Stairs - Felicity Lott
17. Long Steel Grass - Martyn Hill
18. Tango-Pasodoble - Martyn Hill
19. Popular Song - Martyn Hill
20. Beatriz's Song - Felicity Lott
21. Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love - Philip Langridge
22. Early One Morning - Felicity Lott
23. The Foggy, Foggy View - Philip Langridge
24. Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast - Philip Langridge
25. Tell Me The Truth About Love - Della Jones
26. The Choirmaster's Burial - Philip Langridge

Customer Reviews:

A century of British art songs to delight those who love them.......2006-06-26

Average customer rating: The young John McCormack.

Come Back to Erin Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Herbert | Herbert, Victor | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Opera & Vocal | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0001B3YUG Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

1. Killarney
2. Come Back to Erin
3. Minstrel Boy
4. My Lagan Love
5. Dear Little Shamrock
6. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
7. Mother Machree
8. Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls
9. Where the River Shannon Flows
10. Molly Brannigan
11. Foggy Dew
12. Low Backed Car
13. My Wild Irish Rose
14. It's a Long Way to Tipperary
15. Ireland, My Sireland [From Eileen]
16. That Tumble Down Shack in Athlone
17. Sweet Peggy O'Neill
18. Barefoot Trail
19. Next Market Day
20. Ballynure Ballad
21. Little Town in the Old County Down

Customer Reviews:

The young John McCormack........2004-05-26

The songs themselves are less distinguished. They met the demand for ditties that recalled a long lost homeland for a large population of USA immigrants. McCormack made a fortune by meeting this need, so that performing and recording them enabled him to give up the career in opera that he disliked.

These Naxos transfers and remasterings make these very old recordings sound better than in any other incarnation I have ever heard while magically eliminating most of the surface hiss that formerly was so intrusive.

Average customer rating:

Irish Dew Paddy Noonan Manufacturer: Peter Pan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Ireland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005Y7FV Release Date: 1992-05-12

Tracks:

1. Irish Medley:/Soldier Boy/Irish Polka
2. Agricultural Irish Girl/It's a Grand Old Country/Whiskey on a
3. Old Maid In The Garret/Irish Reel/The Unicorn
4. Irish Coffee Dance/Orange and Green/Shores of America
5. If You're Irish/Hannigan's Hooley/Eillen Oge/Dan O' H/Garden Where the
6. Whistling Gypsy/The Jolly Ploughboy
7. My Wild Irish Rose/Goodbye Johnny/When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
8. Phil, the Fluters Ball
9. How Can You Buy Killarney?/Gentle Maiden
10. Siege of Ennis
11. Dear Old Donegal

Average customer rating:

Scarborough Fayre: Traditional Tunes from the British Isles and the New World Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Noels & Carols The Olde World English Country Dances ASIN: B0002MPQNW Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

1. Tullochgorum - Miss Dundas' Reel (traditional Scottish/Cape Breton)
2. St Claire's Defeat (traditional Ohio ballad)
3. Far Away (after Peter Jung) - Cambleton Snows (after T.K. Kelly)
4. Cawdor Fair (Strathspey by Mr Campbell of Budyet) - Over the Isles to America (traditional reel)
5. Jockey Loves his Moggie Dearly (anon., Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719)
6. The Flowres of the Forest (anon. Skene MS., c.1620) - Flowre Rownde (Sorrell)
7. Scarborough Fayre (anon. Barry MS., c.1580)
8. Down Yon Bank (anon., Skene MS., 1620)
9. Scotch Cap (John Playford, The English Dancing Master, 1651)
10. Garfield's Blackberry Blossom - Poplar Bluff (traditional American)
11. Lumps of Pudding (anon., Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719)
12. Morning Dew - George White's Favourite (traditional Irish reels)
13. Farewell & Adieu (after "Farewell to the Spanish Ladies", 17th-century English sea-shanty)

Average customer rating: Encourage your brooders to set Consummate Artistry!

Down By the Salley Gardens Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Folk | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005MOC9 Release Date: 2001-08-28

Tracks:

1. The Jolly Miller
2. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
3. The Foggy, Foggy Dew
4. The Isle Of Cloy
5. The Trees They Grow So High
6. Died For Love
7. Lovely Mollie
8. I Love My Love
9. the Shooting Of His Dear
10. Down By The Salley Gardens
11. The Old Turn Fire
12. Ye Banks And Braes
13. Barb'ra Ellen
14. Barbara Allen
15. She Moved Thro' The Fair
16. The star Of The County Down
17. Sweet Nightengale
18. Blow The Wind Southerly
19. The British Waterside
20. The Pressgang
21. Little Sir William
22. Six Dukes Went A-Fishin'
23. Sweet Polly Oliver
24. Bold William Taylor
25. Charlie Is My Darling
26. O Waly, Waly

Customer Reviews:

Encourage your brooders to set.......2003-03-08

I wanted to be polite. After all, I really loved the albums Benjamin Luxon cut with Bill Crofut, where many of this album's songs also appear, only sung in a very tuneful and endearing manner. I highly recommend their "Dance to Your Daddy," "Two Gentlemen Folk," and "Simple Gifts."

For that matter, I'd recommend this baritone's classical CDs to anyone. He sings a mean Bach.

This album? Well, I'm glad Amazon's two-star rating means 'not for me' instead of 'this recording is so incredibly one-dimensional and boring that I'm going to pipe it into my hen house to encourage the brooders to set.'

I know some people will love listening to Benjamin Luxon sing twenty-six English folk songs in what my untrained ear seemed to think was exactly the same manner, tempo, and volume, accompanied by what sounded like the same tune on the piano for all twenty-six tracks (maybe the pianist got sick after the first track and the album's producers thought no one would notice if they recycled his accompaniment twenty-five times). After all, the previous reviewer gave this album five stars and a very respectful evaluation.

I'm saying if you want to hear Benjamin Luxon sing 'Down by the Salley Gardens,' you will be better off with "Dance to Your Daddy" rather than this CD.

Consummate Artistry!.......2002-02-22

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