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Title Bitter ballads : ancient and modern poetry sung to medieval and traditional melodies
Published Los Angeles : Harmonia Mundi, [1998]
℗1998

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Description 1 online resource (1 audio file)
Contents Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged / Jonathan Swift -- The roundhead / Samuel Butler -- London is a fine town / anonymous -- London / William Blake -- The fine old English gentleman / Charles Dickens -- The great testament / Villon ; Lowell -- Highland dance #1 : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- Kiltory / Helen Adam -- Highland dance #2 : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- Shallow-water warning ; Song for a sea tower / Helen Adam -- The ballad of Marie Farrar / Bertolt Brecht -- Senza licenza : (harp solo) ; Invention : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- Fine flowers in the valley / trad. ; [music by] Howard Skempton -- Sappho : fragment / Sappho ; Lowell -- The keel row I : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- It was summer now / Gertrude Stein -- The keel row II : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- Disillusionment / Gertrude Stein -- The cockfight : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- Sailing to Byzantium / W.B. Yeats -- Brigg fair : (harp solo) / [music] traditional -- "Coda" : from Briggflatts / Basil Bunting
Notes For voice with harp or psaltery, and for harp
Performer Paul Hillier, vocals ; Andrew Lawrence-King, harp or psaltery
Event Recorded 1996 April 6 and 1997 June 11-13 Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, CA
Notes Sung in English
Hard copy version record
Subject Ballads, English.
English poetry -- Musical settings
Songs with harp
Songs with psaltery
Harp music, Arranged
Ballads, English.
English poetry.
Harp music, Arranged.
Songs with harp.
Songs with psaltery.
Genre/Form Streaming audio
Musical settings.
Form Streaming audio
Author Hillier, Paul, singer.
Lawrence-King, Andrew, instrumentalist.