Purcell
Retir'd from any mortal's sight,
Silvia, now your scorn give over
I see, she flies from me
On the brow of Richmond Hill
Astra Desmond (contralto)
All recorded in 1944

Arne (Shakespeare)
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
When icicles hang by the wall
Under the greenwood tree
Where the bee sucks
John Heddle Nash (baritone)
Ernest Lush (piano)
All recorded in 1954

Munro My lovely Celia
Boughton Fary Song (from The Immortal Hour)
Richard Lewis (tenor)
Both recorded in 1948

Butterworth
A Shropshire Lad:
Loveliest of trees, When I was one-and-twenty, Look not in my eyes, Bredon Hill, Oh fair enough are sky and plain, When the lad for longing sighs, Think no more, lad, The lads in their hundreds, Is my team ploughing?, On the idle hill of summer, With rue my heart is laden
John Cameron (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)
Recorded in 1954

Lehmann When'er a snowflake leaves the sky
Gwen Catley (soprano)
Recorded in 1951

Woodforde-Finden Pale hands I love
Alfred Piccaver (tenor)
Recorded in 1928

Quilter (Shakespeare)

O mistress mine
Come away death
It was a lover and his lass
Hey ho! The wind and the rain
John Heddle Nash (baritone)
Ernest Lush (piano)
All recorded in 1954

To Daisies
Go lovely rose
Walter Midgley (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)
Both recorded in 1952

The lark in the clear air
Owen Brannigan (bass)
Recorded in 1952

"This is another - and very welcome - anthology disc of excellent transfers ... made by some of the finest British (and Australian) singers of the mid-20th century ... The songs [John Cameron singing Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad'] are wonderful and sound especially so in this eloquent performance ... Gwen Catley's enchanting ... And who could resist Alfred Piccaver in Pale hands I love'?"
Michael Kennedy, Sunday Telegraph, 9 January 2000

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