For high voice and piano. Secular and sacred songs. Pref. in English. CD contains piano accompaniments, performed by Laura Ward.
Contents:
Under the greenwood tree / William Shakespeare (from As you like it), Thomas Augustine Arne. My mother bids me bind my hair = Bind' auf dein Haar / Anne Hunter, Franz Joseph Haydn -- Bluebird / Rudolph Schirmer -- A brown bird singing / Royden Barrie, Haydn Wood -- For my soul thirsteth for God (from Psalm 42) / Felix Mendelssohn -- The green cathedral / Gordon Johnstone, Carl Hahn -- I will lay me down in peace (O God of my righteousness) / Maurice Greene -- I will sing of Thy great mercies (from St. Paul) / Felix Mendelssohn -- In meinem Garten die Nelken = My treasured flowers are dying / Emanuel von Geibel, Robert Franz -- Love among the daffodils / Edward Teschemacher, Eric Coates -- Maman, Dites-Moi = Mother, please explain / harmonized by Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin -- May-Day carol / English folksong (Essex), transcribed and harmonized by Deems Taylor -- The merry widow waltz / Franz Lehár -- Mother sorrow / Edvard Grieg -- Il Neige = 'Tis snowing / Hermann Bemberg -- Nuit d'étoiles = Lovely night of stars / Théodore de Banville, Claude Debussy -- Praise / George Herbert, George Dyson -- The pool of quietness / Grace Wallace, Thomas Vincent Cator -- Ridente la calma = How calm is my spirit / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Der Sandmann = The sand-man / Gustave Herrmann Kletka, Robert Schumann -- Se meritar potessi = If only by deserving / Domenico Bruni -- Sound the flute! / William Blake, Celius Dougherty -- Spleen / Paul Verlaine, Lady Dean Paul Poldowski -- Sur la Terrasse de Saint Germain = On the Terrasse of Saint-Germain / André Alexandre, Félix Fourdrain -- Star Vicino = Let me linger near thee / Anon. (previously attributed to Salvator Rosa) -- To a little child / Clara Edwards -- The time for making songs has come / Hermann Hagedorn, James H. Rogers -- La vezzosa pastorella = In the cool and dewy morning / Domenico Bruni -- Vilia (from the Merry widow) / Franz Lehár -- Waters ripple and flow / Czecho-Slovak folksong, harmonized by Deems Taylor -- Welcome, pretty primrose / Ciro Pinsuti -- When Jesus walked on Galilee / Warren Charles Klein, Clara Edwards -- The willow song / William Shakespeare (from Othello), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor -- Under the greenwood tree / William Shakespeare (from As you like it), Thomas Augustine Arne.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.