King David / Herbert Howells ; text, Walter de la Mare (5:01) -- It was a lover and his lass / Roger Quilter ; text, William Shakespeare (2:21) -- Down by the salley gardens / Ivor Gurney ; text, William Butler Yeats (2:46) -- Silent noon / Ralph Vaughan Williams ; text, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (4:23) -- Lord, what is man? / Henry Purcell & Benjamin Britten ; William Fuller (5:55) -- Job's curse / Henry Purcell & Benjamin Britten ; text, Jeremy Taylor (5:42) -- Linden Lea / R. Vaughan Williams ; text, William Barnes (2:25) -- Come away, death (2:53) ; O mistress mine (1:31) ; Blow, blow, thou winter wind (2:32) / R. Quilter ; text, William Shakespeare -- At Middle-Field Gate in February / Gerald Finzi (3:10) ; Text, Thomas Hardy -- Widow bird / H. Howells (1:48) ; text, Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Horseman / Lennox Berkeley ; text, Walter de la Mare (1:11) -- Little boy lost / H. Howells ; text, William Blake (2:12) -- Belle dame sans merci / Charles Villiers Stanford ; text, John Keats (6:09) -- Bright is the ring of words / R. Vaughan Williams ; text, Robert Louis Stevenson (1:50) -- Sigh / G. Finzi ; Text, Thomas Hardy (3:28) -- Jillian of Berry / Peter Warlock ; Text, Anonymous (0:34) -- Set in the manner of Handel / Victor Hely-Hutchinson (2:20) ; Text, Anonymous -- Take, o take those lips away / R. Quilter (1:25) ; Text, William Shakespeare -- Since we loved / G. Finzi ; Text, Robert Bridges (1:17) -- Hey, ho, the wind and the rain / R. Quilter (1:51) ; Text, William Shakespeare -- Music for a while / Henry Purcell & Michael Tippett ; Text, John Dryden & Nathaniel Lee (3:37).
Note
The 5th and 6th works are realizations by Benjamin Britten of Purcell songs for voice and continuo ; the 8th-10th works comprise a song cycle ; the last work is a realization by Michael Tippett of a Purcell song for voice and continuo.