Rebecca Clarke: The Co... - Kitty Whately - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

A collection of all the songs written by the British-American composer, Rebecca Clarke. She wrote vocal chamber music over the whole of her career, from Wandrers Nachtlied, her first completed composition, in 1903, through her overhaul of Lethe, in the winter of 1976–77. Taken together, her songs and duets constitute one of the greatest and most distinctive contributions to the vocal repertoire of the twentieth century. Much of Clarke’s vocal music has been recorded, but the present album brings it all together under one roof, including a complete survey of the early songs (only Tears was previously recorded), and first recordings of Weep You No More, Sad Fountains, in its original solo version, and the epic Binnorie: A Ballad. There are 22 World Premiere Recordings in total.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Greeting
2. 2 Songs: No. 1, Shy One
3. A Dream
4. 2 Songs: No. 2, the Cloths of Heaven
5. One That is Ever Kind 'the Folly of Being Comforted'
6. Down By the Salley Gardens (Version For Tenor and Violin)
7. June Twilight
8. The Seal Man (Arr. For Mezzo Soprano, Piano and Violin By Max Baillie, Myra Lin and Anna Tilbrook)
9. Oh, Dreaming World
10. Up-Hill
11. Sleep
12. Spirits
13. Shiv, Who Poured the Harvest 'Shiv and the Grasshopper'
14. Chanson
15. 3 Old English Songs: No. 1, It Was a Lover and His Lass
16. 3 Old English Songs: No. 2, Phillis On the New Made Hay
17. 3 Old English Songs: No. 3, the Tailor and the Mouse
18. Vor Der Ture Schlaft Der Baum
19. Du
20. Oh Welt
21. Nach Einem Regen
22. Vergissmeinnicht
23. Das Ideal
24. The Cherry-Blossom Wand
25. The Donkey
26. The Aspidistra
27. Ah For the Red Spring Rose
28. God Made a Tree

Disc 2

1. Binnorie: a Ballad (Arr. For Mezzo Soprano, Piano and Violin By Max Baillie, Myra Lin and Anna Tilbrook)
2. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
3. Come, Oh Come, My Life's Delight
4. A Psalm of David, When He Was In the Wilderness of Judah
5. Magna Est Veritas
6. Take, O Take Those Lips Away
7. Cradle Song
8. Infant Joy
9. Tiger, Tiger (Version For Mezzo Soprano and Piano)
10. Eight O Clock
11. The Moving Finger Writes
12. Lethe
13. Return of Spring
14. Tears
15. The Color of Life
16. Klage
17. Manche Nacht
18. Aufblick
19. Durch Die Nacht
20. Wandrers Nachtlied
21. Stimme Im Dunkeln
22. Nacht Fur Nacht
23. Daybreak
24. Down By the Salley Gardens (Version For Mezzo Soprano and Piano)
25. 3 Irish Country Songs: No. 1, I Know My Love
26. 3 Irish Country Songs: No. 2, I Know Where I M Goin
27. 3 Irish Country Songs: No. 3, As I Was Going To Ballynure
28. Away, Delights!
29. Hymn To Pan

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland