Bitter ballads : ancient and modern poetry sung to medieval and traditional melodies.

Author/creator Hillier, Paul performer.
Other author Lawrence-King, Andrew performer.
Format Audio (CD)
Publication InfoLos Angeles : Harmonia Mundi France, ℗1998.
Description1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

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.
General noteFor voice with harp or psaltery, and for harp.
General note"Production USA."
General noteCompact disc.
General noteProgram notes in English and French, and texts English and French translations (45 p. : ill.) in container.
Performer Paul Hillier, voice; Andrew Lawrence-King, harp or psaltery.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Apr. 6, 1996, and June 11-13, 1997, Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, CA.
LanguageSung in English.
Genre/formMusical settings.
LCCN 2001569602
UPC 093046720421
Publisher numberHMU 907204 Harmonia Mundi France

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