This collection, representing major composers, was compiled as an introduction to British song literature for collegiate age singers and advanced high school age singers. Britten: Come you not from Newcastle? • Britten: Nocturne • Britten: The Nurse's Song • Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens • Finzi: Come away, come away, death • Finzi: Oh fair to see • Gurney: Sleep • Purcell/Britten: I attempt from love's sickness to fly • Purcell/Britten: If music be the food of love (1st version) • Quilter: Love's Philosophy • Quilter: Now sleeps the crimson petal • Quilter: Weep you no more • Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea • Vaughan Williams: The Vagabond • Warlock: Take o take those lips away.
