Title from disc label. Compact disc. Ashley Riches, bass-baritone ; Joseph Middleton, piano. Recorded 2020 June 29-July 1 Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk.
Contents:
Die Forelle, op. 32, D 550 (2:20) ; Die Vögel, op. 172, no. 6, D 691 (1:13) / Franz Schubert -- Die Löwenbraut, op. 31, no. 1 / Robert Schumann (8:06) -- Der Rattenfänger / Hugo Wolf (2:37) -- An die Nachtigall, op. 46, no. 4 / Johannes Brahms (2:58) -- Die Drossel, WoO 34, TrV 49 / Richard Strauss (2:28) -- Le papillon et la fleur, op. 1, no. 1 / Gabriel Fauré (2:06) -- Histoires naturelles / Maurice Ravel (16:46) -- Mephistophele's Song of the flea in Auberbach's tavern / Modest Mussorgsky (3:18) -- Once there lived a cockroach, op. 146, no. 2 / Dmitri Shostakovich (3:44) -- The three ravens / John Ireland (4:28) -- King David / Herbert Howells (5:09) -- The monk and his cat, op. 29, no. 8 / Samuel Barber (2:24) -- Ogden Nash's musical zoo / Vernon Duke (12:12) -- The crocodile / Benjamin Britten (5:19).
Summary:
Animal-themed songs by composers as diverse as Barber, Brahms, Britten, Faure, Mussorgsky, Ravel, Schubert, Shostakovich, Wolf, and more.
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