Title from disc label. Principally for 1-3 voices with piano; except Five phrases from the Song of Solomon for soprano and percussion; Five songs from William Blake and Collected poems originally with orchestra; My shepherd will supply my need originally for unaccompanied SATB chorus. Sarah Pelletier, soprano ; Lynne McMurtry, contralto ; William Hite, tenor ; Aaron Engebreth, baritone ; Alison D'Amato or Linda Osborn, pianist ; John McDonald, percussion ; Aaron Engebreth, Alison D'Amato, artistic co-directors. Recorded 2015 August 15-19 Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University's Granoff Music Center. "Florestan Recital Project." Booklet with program notes and song texts in English, and French, Latin, and Spanish song texts with English translation (75 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Contents:
(3:33). Le singe et le léopard (1920, unpublished) / text by Jean de La Fontaine (1:49) -- Ah, sunflower! (1920, unpublished) / text by William Blake (1:18) -- Susie Asado (1926) / text by Gertrude Stein (1:42) -- Preciosilla (1927) / text by Gertrude Stein (4:05) -- Five songs from William Blake (1951). The divine image (2:33) ; The tiger (2:53) ; The land of dreams (3:05) ; The little black boy (4:01) ; And did those feet (3:01) -- Portrait of F.B. (Frances Blood) (1929) / text by Gertrude Stein (5:58) -- La valse grégorienne : quatre poèmes de Georges Hugnet (1927). Les écrivisses ; Grenadine ; La rosée ; Le wagon immobile (2:09) -- Film : Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs (1930) / text by Gertrude Stein (5:01) -- The tiger (1926) / text by William Blake (1:50) -- Le berceau de Gertrude Stein, ou Le mystère de la rue de Fleurus (1928) / text by Georges Hugnet (3:20) -- Les soirées bagnolaises (1928, unpublished) / text by Georges Hugnet (7:07) -- La belle en dormant (1931) / text by Georges Hugnet. Pour chercher sur la carte des mers (1:12) ; La première de toutes (1:21) ; Mon amour est bon à dire (1:23) ; Partis les vaisseaux (0:53) -- Trois poèmes de la Duchesse de Rohan (1928, #1 unpublished). À son altesse la Princesse Antoinette Murat (1:52) ; La Seine (2:35) ; Jour de chaleur aux bains de mer (1:25) -- Air de Phèdre (1930) / text by Jean Racine (6:09) -- Commentaire sur Saint Jérome (1928, unpublished) / text by Marquis de Sade (1:05) -- Le singe et le léopard (1930) / text by Jean de La Fontaine (3:33). (5:19) ; From the canticle of the sun / (1955) / text adapted from Matthew Arnold's translation of St. Francis of Assisi (1:32) -- Dirge (1939) / text by John Webster (1:25) -- Shakespeare songs (1957). Was this fair face the cause? (2:19) ; Take, O, take those lips away (2:14) ; Tell me where is fancy bred (1:27) ; Pardon, Goddess of the Night (1:59) ; Sigh no more, ladies (2:34) -- Consider, Lord (1955) / text by John Donne (1:35) -- The bell doth toll (1955) / text by Thomas Heywood (1:39) -- Remember Adam's fall (1955) / text by Anonymous, 15th century (2:45) -- John Peel (1955) / text by John Woodcock Graves (3:21) -- Look, how the floor of heaven (1955) / text by William Shakespeare (1:33) -- If thou a reason dost desire to know (1955-58) / text by Sir Francis Kynaston (2:47) -- Praises and prayers (1963). From the canticle of the sun / text adapted from Matthew Arnold's translation of St. Francis of Assisi (5:19) ; Mass for solo voice text by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1960). Sung by the shepherds / text adapted from Richard Crashaw ; music based on the Pange lingua hymn (4:05) ; Before sleeping / text, traditional child's prayer and nursery rhyme (2:32) ; Jerusalem, my happy home / text Anonymous, from The meditations of Saint Augustine (3:25) -- Three sentences of Solomon (1924, unpublished) / text from Song of songs, Old Testament. Thou that dwellest in the gardens (1:18) ; Return, O Shulamite! (1:38) ; I am my beloved's (1:00) -- Five phrases from the Song of Solomon (1926) / text from Song of songs, Old Testament. Thou that dwellest in the gardens (0:53) ; Return, O Shulamite! (1:16) ; O, my dove (1:05) ; I am my beloved's (1:14) ; By night (1:21) -- Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France, Reine de la Grande-Bretagne (1930/34, unpublished) / text by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (12:17) -- Mass for solo voice (1960). Agnus Dei (2:19). Gloria in excelsis (3:35) ; Sanctus (1:05) ; Benedictus qui venit (0:40) ; Agnus Dei (2:19). (5:31). A prayer to Saint Catherine (1937/59) / texts by Kenneth Koch (4:17) -- Two by Marianne Moore (1963). English usage, or "Strike till the iron is hot" (2:29) ; My crow Pluto, or "Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings" (2:13) -- Go to sleep, Gabriel Liebowitz (1939, unpublished) / text, Virgil Thomson (:55) -- The courtship of the Yongly-Bongly-Bo (1973) / text adapted from Edward Lear (6:35) -- Chamber music (1931, unpublished) / text by Alfred Kreymborg (2:17). Sunset ; Twilight ; New moon ; Midnight -- A lullaby for Margaret Wheeler (1987, unpublished) / text by Virgil Thomson (1:16) -- From Sneden's Landing variations (1972) / text by Frank O'Hara (2:04) -- What is it? (1979) / text by Thomas Campion (2:31) -- Go to sleep, Pare McTaggett Lorentz : a lullaby (1935, unpublished) / text by Virgil Thomson (0:42) -- The cat (1980) / text by Jack Larson (3:13) -- Tres estampas de niñez (1957) / text by Reyna Rivas. Todas las horas (2:21) ; Son amigos de todos (0:55) ; Nadie lo oye como ellos (3:38) -- Go to sleep, Alexander Smallens, Jr. (1937, unpublished) / text by Virgil Thomson (1:11) -- Mostly about love (1959) / text adapted from Kenneth Koch. Love song (2:25) ; Down at the docks (2:08) ; Let's take a walk (1:24) ; A prayer to Saint Catherine (2:52) -- Collected poems (1959) / texts by Kenneth Koch (5:31).
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