Shakespeare Song Album - 23 Songs

23 settings of Shakespeare's song texts spanning the 16th century to the present day. Handsomely produced in association with The Royal Shakespeare Company with an introductory note from their Director of Music Guy Woolfenden. Includes pieces by Morley, Arne, Sullivan, Ireland, Quilter, Stanford, Bridge and many others.

ABRSM Grade 5 Singing Syllabus from 2018

List A:

14A: It was a lover and his lass

List B:

12B: Fear no more the heat o' the sun

• T. Morley: It Was a Lover and His Lass (As you like it)
• T. Arne: When Daisies Pied (Loves Labours Lost)
• T. Arne: Where the Bee Sucks (The Tempest)
• H. R. Bishop: Lo! Here the Gentle Lark (Venus and Adonis)
• A. S. Sullivan: The Willow Song (Othello)
• M. B. Foster: Under the Greenwood Tree (As you like it)
• C. V. Stanford: O Mistress mine (Twelfth Night)
• C. V. Stanford: The Rain it Raineth Every Day (Twelfeth Night)
• F. Austin: Orpheus With his Lute (Henry)
• R. Quilter : When Daffodils Begin to Peer (The Winters Tale)
• R. Quilter: Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind (As you like it)
• R. Quilter: When Icicles Hang by thé Wall (Loves Labours Lost)
• F. Bridge: Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind (As you like it)
• J. Ireland: When Daffodils Begin to Peer (The Winters Tale)I
• Harrison: I know a Bank (A midsummer Nights Dream)
• E. Coates: Orpheus with his Lute (Henry III)
• E. Coates: Under the Greenwood Tree (As you like it)
• E. Coates: Who is Sylvia (The two Gentleman of Verona)
• S. Findlay: It was a Lover and His Lass (As you like it)
• S. Findlay: The Poor Soul Sat Sighing (Othello)
• I. Higginson: O Mistress Mine (Twelfth Night)
• I. Higginson: Fear No More the Heat o the Sun (Cymbeline)
• I. Higginson: It Was a Lover and His Lass (As you like it)