Description

This distinctive collection is an excellent, significant representation of art song in English, featuring composers from both sides of the ocean. The release features numerous initial transpositions, since the song selections are identical for both the High Voice and Medium/Low Voice versions.

Songs / Content

• 1. Argento: Dirge
• 2. Argento: Spring
• 3. Argento: Spring is like a perhaps hand
• 4. Argento: When faces called flowers float out of the ground
• 5. Beeson: In the Public Gardens
• 6. Beeson: Indiana Homecoming
• 7. Bernstein: Civet … Toute Vitesse (Rabbit at Top Speed)
• 8. Bernstein: Greeting
• 9. Bernstein: I hate music!
• 10. Bernstein: Jupiter has seven moons
• 11. Bridge: Love went a-riding
• 12. Britten: At the mid hour of night
• 13. Britten: If it's ever spring again
• 14. Britten: Nocturne
• 15. Britten: The Sally Gardens
• 16. Britten: Sephestia's Lullaby
• 17. Chanler: These, My Ophelia
• 18. Clarke: Down by the sally gardens
• 19. Clarke: The Seal Man
• 20. Copland: At the River
• 21. Copland: Heart, we will forget him
• 22. Copland: The Little Horses
• 23. Copland: Poet's Song
• 24. Copland: Why do they shut me out of Heaven?
• 25. Del Tredici: Acrostic Song
• 26. Duke: Central Park at Dusk
• 27. Duke: There will be stars
• 28. Finzi: Fear no more the heat o' the sun
• 29. Finzi: It was a lover and his lass
• 30. Finzi: Oh fair to see
• 31. Floyd: Two Stevenson Songs (Rain
• 32. Where Got the Boats?)
• 33. Furney: Sleep
• 34. Head: Money, O!
• 35. Hundley: The Astronomers
• 36. Hundley: Sweet Suffolk Owl
• 37. Hundley: Waterbird
• 38. Ireland: Spring Sorrow
• 39. Quilter: How should I your true love know?
• 40. Quilter: My Life's Delight
• 41. Quilter: Weep you no more
• 42. Rorem: Alleluia
• 43. Rorem: Ferry me across the water
• 44. Rorem: Jeanie with the LIght Brown Hair
• 45. Rorem: Love
• 46. Rorem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• 47. Somervell: The lads in their hundreds
• 48. Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words
• 49. Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
• 50. Warlock: Take, O take those lips away