Answers to remaining lyrics meme questions

[chickenfeet]

2. intergalactic, asteroid, green, Uranus, ETA: Mekon, ETA2: Treen

Leader of the Treens - Mrs. Ackroyd Band

3. raven, cursed, fists, haunts, ETA: hate, ETA: Michael

Crazy Man Michael - Sandy Denny w. Fairport Convention

4. bubbling, money, timbertops, apple, ETA: peevish, ETA2: lea

Linden Lea - Houseman set by Vaughan Williams. Thomas Allen singing on my recording.

8. school, stagnant, buttons, invisible, ETA: bankmanager, ETA: gold

Palaces of Gold - Leon Rosselson

9. bois, pigeon, donjon, carosse, ETA: bergère, ETA2: chasse

Le Roi se Va-t-en Chasse -trad - from a record of Britten/Pears folksong arrangements

10. provost, key, beguiled, whore, ETA: Scots, ETA2: flower

The Fair Flower of Northumberland - trad - in this case from a Dick Gaughan record

Comments

[mehdi-caps.livejournal.com]

I had guessed that #9 was a traditional song (because of the words employed), but I didn't know it, sorry.

Britten's arrangement has also been recorded by ASvO (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004TL2P/qid=1120567499/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4420925-2245635) (Anne Sofie von Otter).

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It's been recorded a bunch of times, as have most of Britten's folk song arrangements. I do rather like the classic Decca performances by Pears with Britten at the piano.

[mehdi-caps.livejournal.com]

I always prefer Britten's recordings of his own works, for obvious reasons.

I didn't know those folk song arrangements, actually. He did understand French very well, I think, because Rimbaud's Illuminations were very smartly set to music.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

There are settings of Hugo and Verlaine (Quatres Chansons Francaises) as well as eight French folk song arrangements. He also set some Goethe and Holderlin. As far as I know the rest of his vocal works were in English or Latin.

[curtana.livejournal.com]

Blast, I should have been able to get Crazy Man Michael, at least! :)