Peter Pears’ voice was undoubtedly one of the finest and most distinctive of the twentieth century and here he collaborates with Julian Bream and Benjamin Britten in performances of English song.

Repertoire includes works by Ford, Morley, Rosseter, Dowland, Pilkington, Campian, Bridge, Butterworth, Ireland, Moeran, Warlock, Holst, Berkeley, Oldham and Britten.

Contents:
1. Ford – Fair, sweet, cruel 
2. Rosseter – When Laura Smiles
3. Dowland – I saw my lady weep 
4. Morley – It was a lover and his lass
5. Dowland – Awake, sweet love
6. Rosseter – What then is love but mourning
7. Morley – Mistress mine, well may you fare
8. Dowland – Fine knacks for ladies
9. Rosseter – Sweet come again
10. Morley – Thyrsis and Milla 
11. Dowland – Sorrow stay
12. Ford – Come Phyllis come
13. Morley – I saw my lady weeping
14. Pilkington – Rest, sweet nymphs 
15. Morley – What if my mistress now 
16. Campian – Come let us sound with melody 
17. Anon. – Misere, my maker 
18. Rosseter – What is a day? 
19. Campian – Fair if you expect admiring 
20. Campian – Shall I come sweet love? 
21. Dowland – If my complaints 
22. Dowland – What if I never speed 
Julian Bream (lute)

23. Bridge – Go not, happy day (Tennyson)
24. Butterworth – Is my team ploughing? (Housman)
25. Ireland – I have twelve oxon (anon.) 
26. Moeran – In youth is pleasure (Wever)
27. Warlock - Yarmouth Fair (anon.)
28. Holst – Persephone (Humbert Wolfe)
29. Berkeley – How love came in (Herrick)
30. Britten – Let the florid music praise! (Auden)
Oldham – Three Chinese lyrics
 31. Herd Boy’s Song
 32. Fishing
 33. Pedlar of Spells
34. Bridge – Love went a-riding (Mary Coleridge)
Benjamin Britten (piano)