Special offer. Donald Swann: Songs
Christopher Glynn (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
this is a continually fascinating and diverse selection...The real star of the show is Christopher Glynn, for whom the project has evidently been a labour of love. The detail and colour of his... — More…
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Presto Editor's ChoiceJuly 2017
2 CDs
Original price ($17.25) Reduced price $6.90Contents
Swann, D: A collection of songs
- Roderick Williams (baritone), Christopher Glynn (piano)
I. The licorice fields at Pontefract
II. Margate 1940
III. Senex
IV. A subaltern's love song
Swann, D: Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson
- Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano)
I. Farewell
II. I died for Beauty
III. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
IV. Dying
V. I had no time to Hate
Swann, D: Two sonnets by Edna St Vincent Millay
- Roderick Williams (baritone), Christopher Glynn (piano)
I. And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
II. Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet
Swann, D: Stopping by woods
- Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano)
Swann, D: Two poems by Thomas Hardy
- John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Glynn (piano)
I. Thoughts of Phena
II. Before life and after
Swann, D: Four lyrics from In memoriam
- John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Glynn (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
II. Be near me when my light is low
III. Oh yet we trust that somehow good
IV. The wish
I. There rolls the deep
Swann, D: Two poems by Christina Rossetti
- Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano)
I. When I am dead, my dearest
II. A better resurrection
Swann, D: Dark rose of my heart
- John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Glynn (piano)
Swann, D: An invite to eternity
- Roderick Williams (baritone), Christopher Glynn (piano)
Swann, D: Two poems by Oscar Wilde
- John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Glynn (piano)
I. The harlot’s house