Sarena Paton The Trees They Grow So High

Traditional British folksong featuring Sarena Paton

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[0CatMiao0]

I'm going on singing, and I use Youtube to learn me the songs I'm getting in homework ... so I used this video, because it's so good. That woman had a really beautiful voice!

[dvdspd21]

One last note re THIS arrangement (the actual author of which, BTW, is still unknown 2 me):

The military drumroll, in addition 2 being more than a tad generic, has, by entering at the very start of the next-to-last verse, if I may quote the song itself, "done to [us] great wrong" by telegraphing - & thus undercutting - what should be, at least 2 the uninitiated, the song's devastating climax, i.e. "the trees grew over him."

[dvdspd21]

BTW, as an ironic aside 2 my previous post, I direct U2 another upload from this same channel in which Ms. Paton DOES perform the Britten version (albeit slightly expanded w/ strings & clarinet). In addition, I myself have uploaded yet another performance of Britten's arrangement, by soprano Lorna Anderson. Caution, tho, 2 those who find THIS excessively brisk: LA clocks in at a tidy 2½ minutes! She won me over, tho, w/ her performance & her pleasingly - & appropriately - audible Scottish roots.

[dvdspd21]

4 those who've arrived here via the 'Benjamin' & 'Britten' tags, I should point out that, tho similar texturally, this is NOT the Britten arrangement, in which piano provides the sole accompaniment (& thus, as you'd expect, is much more varied). Like Britten's, this version builds & subsides 2 mirror the narrative arc, but, whereas here the effect's achieved primarily by adding & subtracting instruments, in Britten, it's the piano part's complexity which swells & recedes, 2 devastating effect.

[superk1a]

I love this song! I did it for a voice recital last year, although since I'm a 13-year-old (I think I was actually 12 back then) girl it sounds quite different. I did it slower and I like it that way, but to each his own. The video is uploaded on Facebook, but not on here, so you guys can't get blessed by my *beautiful* voice. (in case you couldn't tell, that was sarcasm)

[veux2bien]

Beautiful voice and easy on the eyes! I like Altan's Irish Folk rendition better. This version is pleasing to the ear, Altans sinks into your very core.

[blueberryholiday]

beautiful! she is truly blessed with a magical voice. nonetheless, I think both ways work (a quicker or slower tempo) since they both bring out different moods and tones.

[laura8u2day]

I disagree. I have done this song for a few years now and have tried it both ways. If should be at this pace. The story's momentum needs to be kept moving, so the end will be more surprising and dramatic. My professor said she had heard it both ways, and the song always had more impact at the faster tempo.

[racketmensch54]

wonderful

[j98559]

wowsa. I love this song, she does a great job.