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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 Anglicanums 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. 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.
| Track | Duration | Title | Composer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 02:38 | Hal an Tow: May Morning Song, Helston, Cornwall | Anonymous |
| 2 | 01:32 | Reading: The inauguration of the Folk-Song Society | Anonymous |
| 3 | 01:38 | I sowed the seeds of love | Anonymous |
| 4 | 01:11 | Reading: The Revd Charles Marson’s account of Sharp’s visit to Hambridge | Anonymous |
| 5 | 02:56 | Lord Randel | Anonymous |
| 6 | 02:38 | Reading: Cecil Sharp in Somerset | Folk song from Somerset |
| 7 | 01:12 | Folk songs from Somerset: 1. The Gypsy Laddie | Anonymous |
| 8 | 01:53 | 2. The water is wide | Anonymous |
| 9 | 02:28 | 3. The Coal-black Smith | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| 10 | 02:37 | Ralph Vaughan Williams: 1. Reading: An innate sense of folk song: Dives and Lazarus | Anonymous |
| 11 | 03:59 | 2. Reading: First song collected: Bushes and Briars | Anonymous |
| 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 | Anonymous |
| 13 | 04:47 | 4. Reading: Collecting with George Butterworth: The Turtle Dove | Anonymous |
| 14 | 03:32 | 5. Reading: in a gypsy encampment, Cold blows the wind tonight | Anonymous |
| 15 | 03:07 | Reading: Collecting with the Phonograph | Anonymous |
| 16 | 03:01 | Brigg Fair | Anonymous |
| 17 | 05:00 | Reading: Diary of Morris Dance Hunting | Anonymous |
| 18 | 02:50 | the Cutty Wren | Anonymous |
| 19 | 01:34 | Reading: the Eynsham Morris | Anonymous |
| 20 | 03:25 | John Barleycorn | Anonymous |
| 21 | 00:27 | Reading: The War | Anonymous |
| 22 | 01:37 | High Germany | Anonymous |
| 23 | 01:47 | Reading: George Butterworth | Anonymous |
| 24 | 02:40 | Banks of Green Willow | Anonymous |
| 25 | 02:20 | Reading: Sailors’ Chanties collected by harry E. Piggott | Anonymous |
| 26 | 04:54 | Chanties: Sally Brown: Stormalong; Way, haul away: Shenandoah: Fire, fire: Johnny Bowker | Anonymous |
| 27 | 02:42 | Reading: the death of Sharp | Anonymous |
| 28 | 06:08 | The Padstow Maysong | Anonymous |
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