Includes notes on the songs, performance and notation, and biographical notes in English. Many songs are published here for the first time.
Contents:
Sonnet 29. Tears, idle tears ; So sweet love seemed ; In dreams, unhappy ; The day is done -- From the diary of Sally Hemings. Part four. They say I was born old ; Martha and Maria ; White waves ; Paris, c'est la ville vivante ; Master brings music to his sitting room ; I was carrying a tray when he called me -- Part two. They say I was born old ; Come back to America ; Back home at Monticello ; Purple hyacinth begins to bloom ; My sister ghost -- Part three. Peonies, a perfume box ; Mister, our child is frail ; Dark winter blue-black evening ; Old shoe! Old shoe! -- Part four. Wild man home from the woods ; Papers! ; Night watch till early morn ; If I take my freedom ; Dear children -- from The hawthorn tree. The dream ; The hawthorn tree ; Chagrin ; Swimming aria -- Laura sonnets. Sonetto 5 ; Sonetto 90 ; Sonetto 267 ; Sonetto 286 ; Sonetto 292 -- Old addresses. Lady death ; The next table ; Histrion ; Ballad of the landlord ; The embrace ; Africa ; To my old addresses -- Songs from a cycle or set. Billy in the Darbies ; The Jersey side ; Rhyme ; September 1, 1939 ; Sonnet 29.
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