Composer: George Butterworth, Percy Grainger, Gustav Theodore Holst, Ethel Smyth, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: The English Singers, Steuart Wilson, Gerald Moore, Frederick Ranalow, Conchita Supervia, Ivor Newton, Mary Lewis, William Anderson, Frederick Collier, Trefor Jones, Leon Goossens, Clarence Raybould, Norman Stone, Oriana Madrigal Society, Glasgow Orpheus Choir, The Fleet Street Choir
Orchestra: British National Opera Company, Light Symphony Orchestra, British Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent, G. Kennedy Scott, Adrian Boult, Sir Hugh Roberton, T.B. Lawrence
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Albion
Catalogue: ALBCD032
Release: 2017
Size: 129 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Vaughan Williams: The Turtle Dove
Vaughan Williams: Five English Folksongs
02. No. 3, Just as the Tide Was Flowing
03. No. 1, The Dark-Eyed Sailor
04. No. 5, Wassail Song (Gloucester Version)
Vaughan Williams: Traditional English Carols
05. No. 4, Down in Yon Forest
06. No. 8, We’ve Been A-while A-wandering “Wassail Song” (Yorkshire Version)
07. Vaughan Williams: An Acre of Land
08. Vaughan Williams: A Farmer’s Son so Sweet
09. Vaughan Williams: Ca’ the Yowes
Vaughan Williams: 2 English Folksongs
10. It’s of a Lawyer
Sharp: Folk Songs from Somerset, Series 3
11. No. 63, The Keys of Canterbury
12. trad.: Bound for the Rio Grande (arr. S. Wilson for voice and piano)
Broadwood: English County Songs
13. The Crocodile Song
Sharp: Folk Songs from Somerset, Series 3
14. No. 73, Admiral Benbow
Sharp: Folk Songs from Somerset, Series 4
15. No. 94, Oh No, John!
Kennedy-Fraser: Songs of the Hebrides
16. Sea Sorrow “Am bron mara” (Arr. G. Bantock for Choir)
Holst: 6 Choral Folk Songs, Op. 36b
17. No. 5, I Love My Love
Sharp: Folk Songs from Somerset, Series 2
18. No. 33, The Crystal Spring
Vaughan Williams: Folksongs for Schools
19. I Will Give My Love an Apple
Vaughan Williams: Hugh the Drover
20. Tuesday Morning
21. trad.: Londonderry Air (arr. F. Kreisler oboe and piano)
22. Grainger: Brigg Fair
23. Smyth: 2 Interlinked French Folk Melodies
24. Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad – Rhapsody
25. Vaughan Williams: The Turtle Dove (Reprise)
I Love my Love is a collection of remastered 78 rpm recordings of folk songs. It focuses on folk songs of classical beauty, presented in generally straightforward arrangements, collected in the early years of the 20th century. There is a depth of humanity in these songs that connects us to a not-so-distant past. The stories and sentiments they describe, of love, war, courtship, separation and the vagaries of the seasons, can make us smile, empathise and, sometimes, still move us to tears.