180 gram audiophile vinyl
Gatefold Sleeve
 
Anthems in Eden is a 1969 album by Shirley and Dolly Collins, with the Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow. The album originally consisted of a 28-minute set of folk songs plus seven other individual pieces performed by the same group. The musical arrangements for these eight pieces included early music instruments, such as viols, recorders, sackbuts and crumhorns.
Track one is a suite, "A song-story", lasting 28 minutes, 7 seconds and is the centrepiece of the album. 

This is a suite of folk songs which depict the changes in rural England brought about by the First World War, and the disconnection that this created with folk traditions. Recorded with an ensemble of early music instruments, it was a completely unique approach to recording English folk music and was to be influential on bands such as Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span in the way that they addressed the traditional folk repertoire. The importing of early instruments into popular recordings is believed to have influenced other bands such as Amazing Blondel and Gryphon.
 
A Song-Story
A1 A Beginning    
A2 A Meeting (Searching For Lambs)    
A3 A Courtship (The Wedding Song)    
A4 A Denying (The Blacksmith)    
A5 A Forsaking (Our Captain Cried)    
A6 A Dream (Lowlands)    
A7 A Leavetaking (Pleasant And Delightful)    
A8 An Awakening (Whitsun Dance)
A9 A New Beginning (The Staines Morris)    
 
B1 Rambleaway    
B2 Ca' The Yowes
B3 God Dog    
B4 Bonny Cuckoo    
B5 Nellie The Milkmaid    
B6 Gathering Rushes In The Month Of May    
B7 The Gower Wassail