Chiefly secular and sacred songs for high voice with piano, with 2 sacred vocal duets (Shehecheyanu, for soprano and baritone; Shalom rav, for 2 sopranos) with piano. Margaret Burton, soprano ; Elizabeth Acker, piano ; Tom Bartsch, piano ; Matthew Zadow, baritone ; Krista Palmquist, soprano. Recorded Aug. 2004 at Humbercrest United Church, Toronto. Compact disc. Booklet with program notes and song texts/translations in English ([14] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Contents:
From song cycle Dos goldene fayfl = My golden flute. Mayn gold'n fayfl = My little gold flute ; Der vint = The wind / Yiddish text by Ida Maze -- From song cycle Froyen Shtimme = Women's voices. Kh'shtey in der mitogtsayt = I stand in the midday / Yiddish text by Rachel Korn -- From song cycle Naye lider = New songs. Di frilingzun = The spring sun (Tom Bartsch, piano) ; Chanukah = Festival of lights ; A vinterlid = A winter song / Yiddish text by Avrom Reisen -- Shehecheyanu = Who has kept us in life / Hebrew liturgical text (duet with Matthe Zadow) -- Esa einai = I will lift up mine eyes / Hebrew Psalm 121 -- Shiru Ladonai = Sing unto the Lord / Hebrew Psalm 96, verses 1-9, 11-13 -- Eishet chayil = Woman of valour / Hebrew liturgical text from Book of Proverbs, ch. 31, v. 10-12, 25-26, 28-29 (Tom Bartsch, piano) -- Shalom rav = Grant peace / Hebrew liturgical text (duet with Krista Palmquist ; Tom Bartsch, piano) -- Hal'luyah / Hebrew Psalm 150 -- From song cycle Four songs. Who'll that be ; Beautiful you are / [words] by Kenneth Patchen -- From song cycle Five faces of love. Brown penny ; For Anne Gregory ; When you are old / [words] by William Butler Yeats -- From song cycle Magic breath. Cradle song ; Abracadabra ; She is the prettiest of creatures ; Magic breath / [respectively, words] by William Butler Yeats, Dorothy Livesay, Kenneth Patchen, Carole H. Leckner.
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