Title from disc label. John Mark Ainsley, tenor ; Malcolm Martineau, piano. Recorded 2013 February 18-21 C rear, Kilberry, Argyll, UK. Booklet with program notes by Paul Kildea and lyrics in English and French (43 pages) inserted in container.
Contents:
Five poems of W.H. Auden, op. 53. Lauds (Among the leaves the small birds sing) (2:15) ; O lurcher-loving collier (2:29) ; What's in your mind, my dove, my coney (2:42) ; Eyes look into the well (2:51) ; Carry her over the water (1:41) / Lennox Berkeley -- Telle jour tel nuit. Bonne journée j'ai revu qui je n'oublie pas (2:47) ; Une ruine coquille vide (2:18) ; Le front comme un drapeau perdu (1:05) ; Une roulotte couverte en tuiles (1:07) ; À toutes brides toi dont le fant̂ome (:39) ; Une herbe pauvre (1:39) ; Je n'ai envie que de t'aimer (:59) ; Figure de force brûlante et farouche (1:31) ; Nous avons fait le nuit (3:41) ; Fancy (1:49) / Francis Poulenc -- Fancie (1:03) / Benjamin Britten -- Friendly persuasions. Wanda Landowska (2:50) ; Pierre Bernac (2:11) ; Raymonde Linossier (3:50) ; Paul Eluard (2:41) / Jake Heggie -- Bleuet (3:27) / Poulenc -- The holy sonnets of John Donne, op. 35. Oh my blacke soule! (3:48) ; Batter my heart (1:23) ; O might those sighes and teares (3:33) ; Oh, to vex me (1:10) ; What if this present (3:13) ; Since she whom I loved (3:13) ; At the round earth's imagined corners (2:39) ; Thou hast made me (1:27) ; Death, be not proud (3:56) / Britten.
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