A summary of recordings of songs from the Baring-Gould collection and of books in print by or about the collection

There are a number of recordings and books about Sabine Baring-Gould’s song collection that are available at the present time. Some of them are listed below.

 Recordings

 

 

 

Martin and Shan Graebe’s CD Parallel Strands contains a number of tracks from the Baring-Gould collection, as well as some of Martin’s own songs. Accompaniments are provided by a great team of musicians including Paul Burgess, Jeff Gillett, Keith Kendrick, Barry Lister, Paul Sartin, and Paul Wilson with additional vocals by Doug Bailey, Lynne Heraud, Barry Lister and Pat Turner. The CD has been produced by Doug Bailey of Wildgoose Records, WGS 323CD. See http://uk.geocities.com/martin.graebe@btinternet.com for details.

 

 

Dead Maid’s Land, another CD from Wildgoose Records, is a recording of songs from the Baring-Gould collection performed by a number of singers and musicians  led by Paul Wilson and Marilyn Tucker,and including Tim Laycock, Martin Graebe, Chris Foster, Phil Humphries, Ellen Thomson and Bob Tinker. This CD has recently been re-mastered by Doug Bailey of Wildgoose and details can be found here.

 

 

Songs of the West is a live recording of the show put together by Martin Graebe, Marilyn Tucker and Paul Wilson to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Baring-Gould’s song collection in 1989. You will find details at http://www.wrenmusic.co.uk/

  

Books

A Garland of Country Song, Baring-Gould and Fleetwood Sheppard's second published collection is available as a reprint from Llanerch Press with a new introduction by Martin Graebe. Details from http://www.llanerchpress.com/

 

Old English Songs from English Minstrelsie is a s selection of 49 old English Songs, taken from the 8 part work English Minstrelsie by Baring-Gould and Fleetwood Sheppard. It includes an illustrated historical essay on English National Song by Baring-Gould. It does not, unfortunately, include any of the folk songs from this collection - a future opportunity, perhaps. Details on http://www.llanerchpress.com/

The William Andrews Tune Book is a collection of tunes collected by Baring-Gould from the Old Dartmoor fiddler, William Andrew of Sheepstor edited by Paul Wilson and Chris Bartram. Available from Wren Music at http://www.wrenmusic.co.uk/.