Catalogue
HAVPCD216 – The Seeds of Love
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| Disk Title | The Seeds of Love |
| Collecting English Folk Music | |
| Choir | Opus Anglicanum |
| Location | John Wood Chapel, Prior Park, Bath |
| Date Recorded | July 1997 |
| Audio Tracks | 28 |
The Seeds of Love recreates the wonder and excitement of the early 20th-century collectors of English Folk song, as they searched the country for singers of ‘genuine’ song. The story is illustrated by some of the folk songs themselves, performed either as arranged by the collectors, or in Opus Anglicanum’s own arrangements, or as they were originally discovered: solo and unaccompanied. The programme begins at the formation of the Folk-Song Society in 1898 and ends with the death of Cecil Sharp in 1924.
| Trk. | Duration | Track Title | Composer |
| 1 | 02:38 | Hal an Tow: May Morning Song, Helston, Cornwall | arr. P. T. Nardone |
| 2 | 01:32 | Reading: The inauguration of the Folk-Song Society | Journal of the Folk-Song Society 1899 |
| 3 | 01:38 | I sowed the seeds of love | arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| 4 | 01:11 | Reading: The Revd Charles Marson’s account of Sharp’s visit to Hambridge | |
| 5 | 02:56 | Lord Randel | |
| 6 | 02:38 | Reading: Cecil Sharp in Somerset | |
| 7 | 01:12 | Folk songs from Somerset: 1. The Gypsy Laddie |
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| 8 | 01:53 | 2. The water is wide | |
| 9 | 02:28 | 3. The Coal-black Smith | |
| 10 | 02:37 | Ralph Vaughan Williams: 1. Reading: An innate sense of folk song: Dives and Lazarus |
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| 11 | 03:59 | 2. Reading: First song collected: Bushes and Briars |
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| 12 | 03:32 | ;3. Reading: Folk tunes as hymns: Our Captain calls all hands/he who would valiant be The Ploughboy’s Dream/o little town of Bethlehem |
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| 13 | 04:47 | 4. Reading: Collecting with George Butterworth: The Turtle Dove |
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| 14 | 03:32 | 5. Reading: in a gypsy encampment Cold blows the wind tonight |
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| 15 | 03:07 | Reading: Collecting with the Phonograph | Percy Grainger |
| 16 | 03:01 | Brigg Fair | arr. Percy Grainger |
| 17 | 05:00 | Reading: Diary of Morris Dance Hunting | George Butterworth |
| 18 | 02:50 | the Cutty Wren | |
| 19 | 01:34 | Reading: the Eynsham Morris | Cecil Sharp |
| 20 | 03:25 | John Barleycorn | |
| 21 | 00:27 | Reading: The War | Journal of the Folk-Song Society 1916 |
| 22 | 01:37 | High Germany | arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| 23 | 01:47 | Reading: George Butterworth | Journal of the Folk-Song Society 1916 |
| 24 | 02:40 | Banks of Green Willow | george Butterworth, arr. S. Chenery |
| 25 | 02:20 | Reading: Sailors’ Chanties collected by harry E. Piggott | Journal of the Folk-Song Society 1916 |
| 26 | 04:54 | Chanties: Sally Brown; Stormalong; Way, haul away; Shenandoah; Fire, fire; Johnny Bowker |
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| 27 | 02:42 | Reading: the death of Sharp | The Travelling Morrice: Log of the First Tour Letter from Louie Hooper, 12 October 1931 |
| 28 | 06:08 | The Padstow Maysong | arr. P. T. Nardone |
Opus Anglicanum was founded in 1988 by five professional singers and a BBC reader, whose aim is to develop and present their own unique and idiosyncratic programmes of words and unaccompanied vocal music. Using early music, special arrangements, folk song, chant, and contemporary music, Opus Anglicanum creates a distinctive type of entertainment which has attracted a devoted following.
