Title from disc label. Julia Broxholm, soprano ; Russell Miller, piano. Tracks 1-5 recorded 2013 December 20 in Hatch Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Tracks 6-30 recorded 2012 July 5-7 and 9 in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Booklet with lyrics, biographical and program notes in English (13 pages : illustrations, color portraits) inserted in container.
Contents:
The soul fox (David Mason) / Lori Laitman (20:22) -- From 3 Browning songs, op. 44. Ah, love but a day! / Amy Beach (3:22) -- Three lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay / Eric Ewazen (9:42) -- A collection of epitaphs and elegies / various (15:32). Little elegy (Elinor Wylie) / John Duke ; On a singing girl (Elinor Wylie) / Ned Rorem ; A shepherd ; Mistress Hew ; A midget ; Three husbands (Walter de la Mare) / Theodore Chanler ; Epitaph of a young girl (tombstone) ; Isaac Greentree (S. Palmer Epitaph Collection) ; The astronomers (tombstone) / Richard Hundley ; Little Elegy (Elinor Wylie) / Ned Rorem -- Women's voices / Ned Rorem (24:58). Now let no charitable hope (Elinor Wylie) ; A birthday (Christina Georgina Rossetti) ; To my dear and living husband (Anne Bradstreet) ; To the ladies (Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh) ; If ever hapless woman had a cause (Mary Herbert) ; We never said farewell (Mary Coleridge) ; The stranger (Adrienne Rich) ; What inn is this (Emily Dickenson) ; Defiled is my name (Anne Boleyn) ; Electrocution (Lola Ridge) ; Smile, Death (Charlotte Mew).
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