Track Listing

1. Early One Morning
2. Come You Not from Newcastle?
3. Sweet Polly Oliver
4. Trees They Grow So High
5. Ash Grove
6. O Waly, Waly
7. How Sweet the Answer
8. Plough Boy
9. Voici le Printemps
10. Last Rose of Summer
11. Belle, Est au Jardin d'Amour
12. Fileuse
13. Dear Harp of My Country!
14. Little Sir William
15. O Can Ye Sew Cushions?
16. Oft in the Stilly Night
17. Quand J'Étais Chez Non Pére
18. There's None to Soothe
19. Oliver Cromwell

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19315 in Music
• Released on: 1998-03-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 53 minutes

Album Description
52 minute long collection featuring 19 folk songs arranged by the late Benjamin Britten, including 'Early One Morning','Come You Not From Newcastle?' and 'Sweet Polly Oliver'. Full digital recording with Brightman accompanied only by pianist Geoffrey Parsons. 1998 EMI release.

Album Details
Originally Released in 1988 as "The Trees …", this Recording Was Reissued with an Alternate Title in 1995: "Early in the Morning". Re-released in 1998 under Current Title; Features the Handy Piano Work of Geoffrey Parsons and Arrangements by Benjamin Britten. Includes the Original Track ("Early in the Morning"), "The Last Rose of Summer" and Many More.

Customer Reviews

A beautiful CD from Sarah Brightman
I read many reviews before I bought this album. Many of them do not encourage you to buy it, but I totally disagree. This is the only CD so far that shows who Sarah Brightman " the soprano " is.
Her voice is perfect, tuned and filled with melody. I own all of her CD's and this one is as special as the rest of them. Her voice is not "young", she was already 26 at the time; it sounds young because of the high notes. I would definitely recommend this CD to those fans of Sarah Brightman and/or anyone who likes Classical Music.

Essentially Sarah
Since I have all of Sarah Brightman's CDs and DVDs I have some basis to compare. Although I love all of her music and consider it so perfect that it is difficult rank the various albums, this is one of my favorites. It is essentially Sarah herself, beautiful, dignified and majestic.

Only for the Old-Fashioned at heart
Sorry about the title to my review, folks, but that's how I feel.

I simply do not play the cd. I bought it to complete my actual Sarah Brightman "Album" collection, with the light hopes that there might be something worth listening to. I was definitely disappointed. Yes, there is Sarah singing in her high Soprano voice, but alas, no opera-diva here.

These songs are pure folk songs arranged revisited a la helium-inhaling Brightman. Don't get me wrong, but "The trees..." does not rank very high in such a successful woman's discography, compared to her last 3 cds.

I will admit I like the simplicity of the front cover. It is of tall tall trees yes, plus fall-colored leaves. Sarah is Pretty for such a cd cover too, but it goes nowhere further than that really.

I do recognize track #1. Isn't it the theme song to the once very popular children's show "The Friendly Giant"?

It's smart how Sarah and her "At the time" producer John Fraser decided to put lots of songs on the cd, but they are really short and are certainly not sing-a-long songs. This cd is truly unique, but I don't know when would it be a good time to play it.
We'll let you be the boss for that. May I add that Sarah Brightman has come a long way, and I give her credit for doing the many styles of music so far.

As much as this cd sits untouched in my collection, it does has its own place in the tower, and who know, it may be worth a lot some day. I will not get rid of it, and that is because I went through enough debating before actually taking it along with Sarah's other (No-hit-wonder) "The songs that got away" to the cash that day.

So, if you are really wanting this CD, go ahead and grab it up. Don't let me stop you, but I said my piece.

Hope this review helped you.