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Steeped in an atmosphere of ancient Scottish musical tradition, Benjamin Britten' setting of texts by Robert Burns in a Birthday Hansel was his final song-cycle. Album Tracks 1. No. 1. Birthday Song 2. No. 2. My Early Walk 3. No. 3. Wee Willie Gray 4. No. 4. My Hoggie 5. No. 5. Afton Water 6. No. 6. the Winter 7. No. 7. Leezie Lindsay 8. No. 1. a Riddle (The Earth) 9. No. 2. a Laddie's Sang 10. No. 3. Nightmare 11. No. 4. Black Day 12. No. 5. Bed-Time 13. No. 6. Slaughter 14. No. 7. a Riddle (The Child You Were) 15. No. 8. the Lark Lad 16. No. 9. Who Are These Children? 17. No. 10. Supper 18. No. 11. the Children 19. No. 12. the Auld Aik 20. Cradle Song, Sleep, My Darling, Sleep 21. Beware! No. 2. O That I Had Ne'er Been Married 22. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 5, British Isles No. 5. Ca' the Yowes 23. No. 2. There's None to Soothe 24. No. 4. O Can Ye Sew Cushions? 25. No. 3. the Bonny Earl O' Moray 26. 8 Folk Song Arrangements No. 4. Bonny at Morn 27. No. 7. Come You Not from Newcastle? 28. Dawtie's Devotion 29. The Gully 30. Tradition 31. No. 1. Afton Water 32. No. 2. Wee Willie 33. No. 3. the Winter 34. No. 4. My Hoggie