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  • Herbert Howells Songs                                                            Chandos 2 CD set CHAN 9185/6 DDD
An Old Man’s Lullaby; Here she lies; O Garlands Hanging by the Doors; Two South African Settings; Upon a Summer’s Day; By the Hearthstone; Blaweary; Three Folk Songs (I will give my Love an Apple; The brisk young Widow; Cendrillon); Sweet Content; A Garland for De La Mare (Wanderers; The Lady Caroline; Before Dawn; The Old Stone House; The three Cherry Trees; The Old Soldier; The Song of the Secret; Some One; A Queer Story; The Old House; Andy Battle); Peacock Pie (Tired Tim; Alas Alack; Mrs MacQueen; The Dunce; Full Moon; MissT); Four French Songs ( Sainte Catherine; C’est le grand Duc du Maine; Angele au Couvent; Le Petit Couturier); In Green Ways (Under the Greenwood Tree; The Goat Paths; Merry Margaret; Wanderer’s Night Song; On the Merry First of May); Three Children’s Songs (There was a Maiden; A Madrigal; The Widow Bird; Girl’s Song); Lost Love; O, My Deir Hert; Come Sing and Dance; The Mugger’s Song; The Little Boy Lost; The Restful Branches; Mally O!; Old Skinflint; King David; Gavotte; Flood; Goddess of the Night.
Lynne Dawson (sop) Catherine Pierard (sop); John Mark Ainsley (ten); Benjamin Luxon (bar); Julius Drake (piano).  Recorded 1992
  • St John’s Magnificat:  Choral works by Herbert Howells                        Chandos CHAN 10587 DDD
By the Waters of Babylon and other sacred music (see details under choral music)
Choir of St John’s College Cambridge, Paul Whelan (bar); David Adams (violin); Alice Neary (‘cello); Timothy Ravalde (organ); directed by Andrew Nethsingha.  Recorded 2009
  • The Frostbound Wood                                                            Signum Classics SIGCD 0161  DDD
Mrs MacQueen; When the Dew is Falling; Full Moon  (plus songs by Warlock, Betty Roe and Michael Howard)
Tim Travers-Brown (counter-tenor); Jeremy Filsell  (piano)   Recorded 2008                                                 
  • By the Waters of Babylon                                                      Meridian CDE 84477 DDD
By the Waters of Babylon (together with music by Travers, SS Wesley, Parry, Bantock, A Milner, M Head)
Martin Oxenham (bar); Lee Ward (organ); Thomas Gould (violin); Nathaniel Boyd (‘Cello).  Recorded 2001