Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. David Mourns for Absalom, song for voice & piano
2. Brigid's Song, for voice & piano
3. Sonatina to Hans Christian
4. The Divine Image, for voice & piano
5. Love's Secret, for voice & piano
6. Polaroli
7. The Frog and the Snake
8. Valentine to Sherwood Anderson, for voice & piano
9. Send Home My Long Strayed Eyes
10. Bedlam, for voice & piano
11. General William Booth Enters into Heaven, song for voice & piano, S. 255 (K. 6B50)
12. Come Away Death
13. Calvinistic Evensong
14. Blue Mountain Ballads, songs (4) for voice & piano: Heavenly Grass
15. Blue Mountain Ballads, songs (4) for voice & piano: Lonesome Man
16. Blue Mountain Ballads, songs (4) for voice & piano: Cabin
17. Blue Mountain Ballads, songs (4) for voice & piano: Sugar In The Cane
18. The Drummer, for voice & piano
19. The Faucon, for voice & piano
20. Looking-Glass River for voice & piano
21. Jazz Boys for voice and piano

Disc 2:

1. Alleluia, song for voice & piano
2. It's all I have to bring, for voice & piano
3. So Bashful, for voice & piano
4. To Make A Prairie, for voice & piano
5. And this of all my hope, for voice & piano
6. Nuvoletta, song for voice & piano, Op. 25
7. Death Be Not Proud
8. Lullee Lullay
9. Waikiki, song for voice & piano (Poems No. 2), Op. 9/2, A. 46
10. Stopping By the Woods On A Snowy Evening, for voice & piano
11. The Tiger, song for voice & piano
12. The Sea, Op. 47/7
13. The Rose, song for voice & piano (from the Children)
14. I Rise When You Enter, for voice & piano
15. Dirge In Woods, song for voice & piano
16. Sorrow of Mydath
17. lady will you come with me into, for voice & piano
18. now (more near ourselves than we), for voice & piano
19. spring is like a perhaps hand, for voice & piano
20. Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
21. Mourn, Mourn, for voice & piano
22. The Donkey, song for voice & piano, HC 695

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #443400 in Music
• Released on: 1996-05-21
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

Important American art songs performed by superb recitalists
This CD, a digital remastering of a recording originally released in 1962, is an extraordinary value for anyone interested in American art song, or simply in fine singing. I bought it because I wanted to hear Eleanor Steber's performance of Griffes's "Waikiki", which did not disappoint. But there are many other wonderful songs, all presented with great artistry. They range from the demanding complexity of Barber's "Nuvoletta" and Ives's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" to the lyricism of the Ernst Bacon songs to texts by Emily Dickinson. The final song on the CD, John McCollum's performance of Henry Cowell's "The Donkey", is especially memorable; I recommend this version over the one on the Albany label's "Songs of Henry Cowell" CD (which I bought because my interest in Cowell's songs was raised by hearing "The Donkey").

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I have not received this item yet. It is on back order. I had to rate it so put 3 stars. However sicne it hasn't been received I can't really rate it. You ought to take situations like this into consideration if you're going to do this sort of thing.