 
Richard Lewis The Great Welsh Tenor
RRC1375
COMPILATION
Playing time: 79'33"
Tracks: 24
Booklet pages: 4
Reviewer: Alice McVeigh
Review of Richard Lewis The Great Welsh Tenor published on 9 September 2011
Listen: Bingo (track 10, 0:00-0:33)
Richard Lewis, tenor
Handel:
1 Recit: So long the memory shall last; Air: While Kedron's brook (Joshua)
2 Recit: Deeper, and deeper still; Air: Waft her, angels (Jephtha)
3 Air: Would you gain the tender creature (Acis and Galatea)
4 Arietta: For ever blessed (Jephtha)
5 Recit: My arms! Air: Sound an alarm (Judas Maccabaeus)
6 Air: War, he sung, is toil and trouble (Alexander's Feast)
7 Air: Total eclipse! (Samson)
8 Air: Where'er you walk (Semele)
9 Recit: Thanks to my brethren; Air: How vain is man (Judas Maccabaeus)
London Symphony Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent, conductor
Recording first published in 1958
Traditional (arranged by Dorumsgaard):
Folksongs of the British Isles
10 Bingo
Sung in English
11 Ar hyd y nos (All through the night)
Sung in Welsh
12 King Arthur's servants
Sung in English
13 Grad gael mo chridh (Eriskay Love Lilt)
Sung in Gaelic
14 The Helston Furry Dance
Sung in English
15 Dafydd y garreg wen (David of the White Rock)
Sung in Welsh
16 The foggy, foggy dew
Sung in English
17 The stuttering lovers
Sung in English
18 The Maypole Song
Sung in English
19 I will give my love an apple
Sung in English
20 O love, it is a killing thing
Sung in English
21 Buy broom buzzems
Sung in English
22 O waly, waly
Sung in English
23 There's none to soothe
Sung in English
24 The briery bush
Sung in English
Tina Bonifacio, harp
chamber orchestra
Charles Mackerras, conductor
Recording first published in 1960
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