On CD: Laura Ward, piano. For voice and piano; in part originally for voice and lute, in part excerpts from operas and oratorios. Accompanying CDs include diction lessons and piano accompaniments by Laura Ward. Biographical and program notes precede each song.
Contents:
Requiem. Pie Jesu / Where the bee sucks / Gabriel Fauré. Come again, sweet love ; Flow my tears / John Dowland -- The silver swan / Orlando Gibbons -- I attempt from love's sickness ; If music be the food of love / Henry Purcell -- It was a lover and his lass ; Love's philosophy ; Weep you no more / Roger Quilter -- Après un rêve ; Chamson d'amour / Gabriel Fauré -- Si mes vers avaient des ailes / Reynaldo Hahn -- Plaisir d'amour / Johann-Paul Martini -- Vergebliches Ständchen ; Wie Melodien zieht es mir / Johannes Brahms -- Das veilchen / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Du bist die Ruh ; Gretchen am Spinnrade / Franz Schubert -- Breit' über mein Haupt / Richard Strauss -- L'abbandono / Vincenzo Bellini -- Intorno all'idol mio / Antonio Pietro Cesti -- Come l'allodoletta / Stefano Donaudy -- Ridente la calma / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- El majo discreto / Enrique Granados -- Del cabello más sutil / Fernando Obradors -- Le nozze di Figaro. Deh vieni, non tardar / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro / Giacomo Puccini -- The Mikado. The sun, whose rays are all ablaze / Arthur Sullivan -- Requiem. Pie Jesu / Gabriel Fauré.
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