Songs and song cycles for baritone and piano. "This album consists entirely of recording premiè€res." Title from disc label. Elem Eley, baritone ; JJ Penna, piano. Recorded 2014 September 29 2014 September 29 Bristol Chapel, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ. Booklet with program notes by the composers, performer biographies, and song texts by Poe, Frost, and Dickinson ([9] unnumbered pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Contents:
Lenoriana : opus 4. Annabel Lee (4:31) ; Lenore (3:57) ; To ____ (1:29) ; The conqueror worm (4:31) ; Intermezzo [piano solo] (2:14) ; Eldorado (2:01) ; Lenore (5:19) ; A dream within a dream (1:55) ; To Helen (4:12) / Benjamin C.S. Boyle ; [poetry by] Edgar Allan Poe -- Two songs from Mountain interval. A time to talk (2:13) ; The sound of trees (6:38) / Laurie Altman ; [poetry by] Robert Frost -- Larkin songs. Going (1:37) ; Coming (2:30) ; Interlude #1 : Fiction and the reading public (1:05) ; Counting (1:36) ; None of the books have time (1:14) ; Within the dream you said (1:06) ; Talking in bed (2:44) ; Interlude #2 : To write one song, you said (3:24) ; Morning at last: there is snow (2:30) ; The white palace (3:19) / Daron Aric Hagen ; [poetry by] Philip Larkin -- Three Dickinson songs. My river runs to thee (1:10) ; Let down the bars, O Death! (2:48) ; I TASTE a liquor never brewed (2:28) / Martin Hennessy ; [poetry by] Emily Dickinson.
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