'Marsh flowers' (no. 3 from Five Flower Songs)
From the album ‘There is sweet music’ - English choral songs 1890-1950

Composer Benjamin Britten
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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LYRICS:
Here the strong mallow strikes her slimy root,
Here the dull night-shade hangs her deadly fruit;
On hills of dust the henbane’s faded green,
And pencil’d flower of sickly scent is seen;
*Here on its wiry stem, in rigid bloom,
*Grows the salt lavender that lacks perfume.
At the wall's base the fiery nettle springs,
With fruit globose and fierce with poison’d stings;
In every chink delights the fern to grow,
With glossy leaf and tawny bloom below:
*The few dull flowers that o’er the place are
spread
*Partake the nature of their fenny bed.
These, with our sea-weeds, rolling up and down,
Form the contracted Flora of our town.

(George Crabbe, 1754–1832. from The Borough)
*These lines do not appear in Crabbe’s original text.

There is sweet music
Featuring masterpieces by Benjamin Britten (Five Flower Songs), Vaughan Williams (Three Shakespeare Songs), Stanford, Delius and Elgar alongside folk-song arrangements by Bairstow, Chapman, Grainger, Holst, Moeran and Stanford, this collection highlights a golden age of the English part-song, now somewhat neglected but nonetheless offering many gem-like compositions worthy of re-investigation.

“These performances are a joy to listen to” BBC Record Review

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.

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