2012 Music Infinity UK release

SIGNED BY THE ARTIST ON LINER NOTES POCKET

Versatility could be Lesley Garrett’s middle name. Apart from her appearances with English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne and Opera North, where she has sung in a wide range of operas by Puccini, Strauss, Mozart, Rossini, Gilbert & Sullivan and Kurt Weill, the soprano has diversified into such as The Sound of Music and Carousel, had her own television series and appeared in innumerable concerts around the world. On her fourteen album recordings she has taken on all sorts of things, and now folk music. With her no-nonsense approach and winning personality she has achieved a broad appeal. For A North Country Lass Garrett returns to her north-country, folk-music roots, with a collection of British and Irish songs, using not only some authentic instrumentation but also giving the material a contemporary sound. Using over a dozen different arrangers, the results cross a wide spectrum of styles, but without betraying the songs’ origins, about the longing for love, the finding of love, the expectations of love, the losing and regaining of love and the love of a mother for her child.--Michael Darvell

For full review see: https://www.classicalsource.com/cd/lesley-garrett-a-north-country-lass/

Track listing: 1 The Bold Grenadier 2 All Around My Hat 3 Once I Had A Sweetheart 4 Blow The Wind Southerly 5 He Moved Through The Fair 6 Pastime With Good Company 7 Suo Gan 8 The Raggle Taggle Gypsies 9 The Cuckoo 10 The Collier Lad 11 My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose 12 Fine Knacks For Ladies 13 A North Country Lass 14 Dance To Your Daddy 15 Over The Hills And Far Away Bonus Track 16 On Ilkley Moor Baht'at

Used CD itself in Ex/VG condition. Minor wear to digipak. Stock photo