Britten: Complete Folk Songs for Voice and Piano

Not being restricted by “authenticity” Britten had experimented with using folksongs as thematic material but deliberately lending them an unconventional, even quirky treatment that defies one’s expectations, putting put his own personal stamp on what are sometimes very familiar tunes. Composers: Benjamin Britten Artists: Mark Milhofer (tenor), Marco Scolastra (piano) Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer): https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Bri... More Information: https://www.brilliantclassics.com/art... It was probably Peter Pears, Britten’s partner in music and life, who drew the composer’s attention to the rich heritage of English folksong and its attractions, as a way to introduce texture, variety and a lighter tone to their song recitals together during the 1940s. According to the tenor, Britten ‘wanted to recreate these melodies with their texts for concert performance, to make them art-songs … he therefore takes the tune as if he had written it himself and thinks himself back as to how he would turn it into a song.’ Thus the piano parts are no mere accompaniments but highly wrought, deftly illustrative comments on the texts and stories of love and country life. In cases such as The Foggy, Foggy Dew and O Waly, Waly, Britten’s arrangements have become better known than any ‘original’ version; they have assumed the identity of the song in the popular imagination, and the distinctive voice of Pears singing them imprinted itself on the imaginations of countless music-lovers in the second half of the last century. However, the songs retain their place in the concert repertoire of many young singers, often as more than encore material, and they admit a rich variety of interpretative approaches. Tracklist: 00:00:00 Wonder as I Wander 00:03:52 The Salley Gardens 00:06:36 Little Sir William 00:10:22 The Bonny Earl o’ Moray 00:12:44 O Can Ye Sew Cushions? 00:14:45 The Trees They Grow so High 00:18:36 The Ash Grove 00:21:42 Oliver Cromwell 00:22:20 The Crocodile 00:27:27 Greensleeves 00:29:32 The Holly and the Ivy 00:31:28 La noël passée 00:35:21 Voici le printemps 00:37:02 Fileuse 00:38:58 Le roi s’en va-t’en chasse 00:41:40 La belle est au jardin d’amour 00:44:33 Il est quelqu’un sur terre 00:50:17 Eho! Eho! 00:52:17 Quand j’etais chez mon père 00:54:02 he Plough Boy 00:55:45 There’s None to Soothe 00:57:48 Sweet Polly Oliver 00:59:56The Miller of Dee 01:02:34 The Foggy, Foggy Dew 01:04:46 The Stream in the Valley 01:06:59 O Waly, Waly 01:11:31 Come you not from Newcastle? 01:12:28 Pray Goody 01:13:13 he Deaf Woman’s Courtship 01:14:38 At the Mid Hour of Night 01:17:28 Rich and Rare 01:20:09 Dear Harp of my Country! 01:22:19 The Last Rose of Summer 01:26:22 O the Sight Entrancing 01:28:07 Avenging and Bright 01:29:39 Sail on, Sail on 01:32:17 How Sweet the Answer 01:34:36 The Minstrel Boy 01:36:31 Oft in the Stilly Night 01:39:25 Soldier, Won’t you Marry me? 01:41:08 The Brisk Young Widow 01:43:07 Sally in our Alley 01:48:01 The Lincolnshire Poacher 01:49:58 Early One Morning 01:52:28 Ca’ the Yowes 01:56:34 Tom Bowling 02:00:12 Dink’s Song Social media links: Instagram: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Ins... Facebook: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Fac... TikTok: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Tik... Spotify Playlists: Brilliant Classics Spotify: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Spo... New Classical Releases: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/New... The Best of Liszt: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Pla... The Best of Bach: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Bes... Most Popular Piano Music: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Mos... Beautiful Classical Music: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Bea... Classical Music For Dinnertime: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Cla... Thank you for watching this video by Brilliant Classics, we hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to share it and subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/You... And visit our channel for the best classical music from the greatest composers like: Bach, Satie, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Ravel, Debussy, Verdi, Vivaldi, Handel, Brahms, Liszt, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Strauss, Handel, Dvorak and many more! We upload complete albums, music for relaxing, working, studying, meditating, concentrating, instrumental music, opera, violin, classical piano music, sonatas and more! #BrilliantClassics #Classical #Classics #Classic #Music #Piano #Tenor #Complete #Folk #Sonfs #Voice #Pianos #Composer #Pianist #Britten #Benjamin