Artist: Blossom Street Singers

Title: Down By the Sea: Collection of British Folk Songs

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2013

Label: Naxos

UPC: 747313306978

Genre: Classical Composers

Album Tracks

1. Lassie, Was Ye Loe Me?
2. A Lover and His Lass
3. The Dark-Eyed Sailor
4. The Orphan Girl
5. Yarmouth Fair
6. Over the Moon
7. Mo Nighean Dubh (My Dark-Haired Maiden)
8. Blow the Wind Southerly
9. Awake, Awake
10. Among the Leaves So Green, O
11. Skye
12. Fare Thee Well
13. All Things Are Quite Silent
14. The Oak and the Ash
15. The Sailor and Young Nancy

Following it's award-winning Christmas album, Sleep, Holy Babe (Naxos 8.572868), Blossom Street explores a wide-ranging sequence of British folk song settings for choir, with a particular focus on the nautical. The repertoire embraces pioneers in the rediscovery and arrangement of folk songs such as Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Warlock, adds little-known gems by Holst and Bairstow, and also introduces vibrant new additions to the repertoire from contemporary composers, including James MacMillan and Judith Bingham and the conductor herself.