http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGVqMK_wZtA

Fairport Convention’s folk rock version (Maidstone, 1970)

MUSICAL RENDITIONS

Edward Francis Rimbault,
Musical Illustrations of Bishop Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1850)

Robert Pearsall, in 10 parts, sung by the Bach Choir (1892)
The Musical Times, 1905

G.J. Bennet, edited and arranged for 8 voices (1876)

W.A. Barratt, a Ballad for Baritone Solo, Chorus, and Orchestra’ (1907)

Thea Musgrave, for tenor and guitar (traditional) (1961)

Buffy Sainte-Marie on Life Wheel Spin and Spin (1966) PLAY

Nic Jones on Ballads and Songs (1970) PLAY

Fairport Convention’s folk rock version on Full House (1971) PLAY

Michael Cooney on Still Cooney After All These Years (1979)

Geoff Kauffman on Fair Stood the Wind (1987) PLAY

Jackie Leven on Fairytales for Hardmen (1997) PREVIEW

Martin Carthy on Signs of Life (1998) PREVIEW

Rick Fielding on This One’s the Dreamer (1999)

June Tabor on An Echo of Hooves (2003) PLAY

John Langstaff and Martin Best on Nottamun Town: British and American Folksongs and Ballads(2003) PREVIEW

Robin Williamson on The Iron Stone (2006) PREVIEW

Gordon Bok on In Concert (2006) PREVIEW

Kris Drever on Black Water (2006) PREVIEW

John Roberts on Sea Fever (2007) PREVIEW

ARTISTIC RENDITIONS

‘Now, Ever Awake My Master Dear, I Fear a Deadly Storm’, Anne Ryan 1947. Indianapolis Museum of Art. VIEW

James Archer, ‘The Legend of Sir Patrick Spens’, Auckland Art Gallery

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, ‘The Ladies’ Lament from the Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens’, 1856.