: A Fairy Story by Gladys Colbourne. Songs by Harold Casey (Baritone). A Children's Play

DISGUISED as a student, the profligate
Duke of Mantua has been making love to Gilda. She is infatuated, and after he has gone, she sings this song of her happiness ; her . lover's dear name (he has given her a false one, of course) is, she declares, for ever written on her heart.
WILLIAM DE FESCH (or Defesch) was an eighteenth-century Flemish Organist and Violinist who came to England in middle life, and produced, among other works, two Oratorios which had some success.
In his day the Sonata had not come to its full form. It was more of the nature of a Suite of Movements in contrasted styles (several of them bearing strong traces of their dance-origin).

YARMOUTH FAIR is one of a number of Norfolk folk-songs collected by E. J. Moeran , a well known young Composer. It is here arranged for Voice and Piano by ' Peter Warlock ' (this is the pen-name of Philip Hesel tino. another Composer much interested in old English music).
The song is about the way in which a lad fell in with a lass on the way to the fair, and the fun they had there, dancing ' to kingdom come.' There is a frequent quaint interjection of ' And the birds they sang . . .'—some appropriate comment on the progress of the courting.