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Title: Early One Morning: Parry Delius Elgar
Artist: Elizabethan Singers
Label: Eloquence Australia
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 028948020775
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2012-07-03
Number of Discs: 2

During the 1960s, Louis Halsey, together with the Elizabethan Singers and The Louis Halsey Singers, made a number of recordings of British choral music for Decca. Three LPs devoted to the music of Parry, Elgar, Stanford and Delius and of folk song settings by a range of British composers, are here collected on this 2CD set. All of this material released on CD for the first time. Though his magnificent choral piece, 'Jerusalem', eclipses much of his other work, Hubert Parry's beautiful 'Songs of Farewell', written during the last three years of his life must be counted among the masterpieces of English choral music. Diana McVeagh describes the Elgar choral songs as 'elaborate, expansive and gorgeous as sheer sound' and so they are in these wonderful performances. All but one of Delius's partsongs were recorded for the original LP and the disc of folk songs arranged by Tippett, Williamson, Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Holst and other front-rank British composers is charming and amusing. Original LP notes (including a very persuasive one by Louis Halsey himself) are reprinted in the booklet.

Tracks:
1.1 Songs of Farewell - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.2 Heraclitus - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.3 Sweet Love for Me - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.4 My Love's An Arbutus - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.5 Veneta - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.6 Chillingham - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.7 Shall We Go Dance - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.8 As Torrents in Summer - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.9 My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.10 Go Song of Mine - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.11 O Wild West Wind - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.12 The Shower - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.13 Love's Tempest - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.14 Owls - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.15 The Fountain - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.16 There Is Sweet Music - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
1.17 Deep in My Soul - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
2.1 Midsummer Song - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
2.2 On Craig Dhu - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
2.3 To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
2.4 The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls - the Louis Halsey Singers - the Louis Halsey Singers
2.5 Captain Bover - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.6 A Fair Maid - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.7 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.8 I Sowed the Seeds of Love - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.9 Wassail Song - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.10 Bushes and Briars - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.11 O Waly, Waly - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.12 Dance to Your Daddy - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.13 Bobby Shaftoe - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.14 Adam Buckham O! - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.15 I Love My Love - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.16 The Sailor and Young Nancy - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.17 Our Captain Calls All Hands - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.18 Bonny at Morn - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.19 Soul Cake - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.20 Down Among the Dead Men - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.21 Brigg Fair - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.22 Early One Morning - Various Performers - Various Performers
2.23 Derwentwater's Farewell - Various Performers - Various Performers