The Cambridge Singers - 8 Famous English Folk Songs

The Cambridge Singers conducted by John Rutter
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1. I Love my Love (1917) - arr. Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
2. My Sweetheart's Like Venus (1933) - arr. Gustav Holst (1874-1934) (4:34)
3. Bushes and Briars (1982) - arr. Donald James (6:24)
4. The Turtle Dove (1924) - arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) (8:57)
5. The Three Ravens - Edward Chapman (1902-1980) (11:28)
6. Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron - arr. John Rutter (1945) (16:18)
7. O Waly, Waly (1978) - arr. John Rutter (1945) (18:50)
8. Greensleeves (1945) - arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) (21:30)

[@sallietaylor8503]

Unbelievable joy to the ears.The singing takes your breath away.It makes you want to be young again.

[@BernardBaars]

These songs should be part of the living repertoire.

[@veronicalowe8671]

They are.

[@heavynov]

1. I Love my Love - arr. Holst 0:00
2. My Sweetheart's Like Venus - arr. Holst 4:34
3. Bushes and Briars - arr. Donald James 6:24
4. The Turtle Dove - arr. Vaughan Williams 8:57
5. The Three Ravens - arr. Chapman 11:28
6. 6. Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron - arr. Rutter 16:18
7. O Waly, Waly - arr. Rutter 18:50
8. Greensleeves - arr. Vaughan Williams 21:30
Thank you for the lovely upload!

[@bartjebartmans]

Thanks, forgot to add those.

[@arguspanoptes9510]

Thanks for the track list And the music both of you

[@SerafinDrake]

Thank you SO MUCH for all the scores you post, when you post music videos - I need to practice my sight reading and get my voice back in shape, and this is a big help.

[@sdorr]

Thanks for uploading this beautiful collection.

[@richardlangellotti6208]

Great stuff!

[@Hexe305]

Exquisite! ❤️❤️

[@berlinzerberus]

Very nice!

[@conan2717]

Good sir, thank you! :0

[@Jbm0230]

"Are you my love or no?" ;)

[@elizabethsohler6516]

This pairs well with ua-cam.com/video/S4GgJEbdAnQ/v-deo.html The Sailor and Young Nancy In both songs the woman is called Nancy.

[@manfrombritain6816]

you can always tell vaughan-williams somehow

[@elizabethsohler6516]

He and Gustav Holst may have done more for English music than any other composers of the 20th century, IMO.

[@yosefinafernandes2169]

For the love of God, can someone please give the English lyrics version of My Sweetheart's Like Venus.. :')

[@caitlyncherro6025]

I got you!
My sweetheart’s like Venus,
she’s lovely and light,
She’s fairer than blackthorn,
she’s slim and she’s white,
there’s no one is like her,
from far or from near,
it’s truth I am telling
for all men to hear.
Her form has the splendour
of straight-growing trees;
her hair like ripe corn
that is stirr’d in the breeze,
her eyebrows like gossamer
that hangs by the door;
if only she’d love me
I’d ask nothing more.
My sweetheart, she loves
like a shower of rain,
now clouded, now weeping,
now smiling again,
but she who loves many
is left without one,
a faithful, true lover
has one love alone.

[@alanthompson8515]

7 famous English folk songs and ONE Welsh one!