Songs by David Swann 2 CDs

CD 1
1 Nr. 1 The licorice fields at Pontefract
2 Nr. 2 Margate 1940
3 Nr. 3 Senex
4 Nr. 4 A subaltern's love song
5 Nr. 1 Farewell
6 Nr. 2 I died for beauty
7 Nr. 3 I felt a funeral, in my brain
8 Nr. 4 Dying
9 Nr. 5 I had no time to hate
10 Nr. 1 And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
11 Nr. 2 Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet
12 Stopping by woods (nach Robert Frost)
13 Nr. 1 Thoughts of Phena
14 Nr. 2 Before life and after
15 Nr. 1 Be near me when my light is low
16 Nr. 2 Oh yet we trust that somehow good
17 Nr. 3 The wish
18 Nr. 4 There rolls the deep
19 Nr. 1 When I am dead, my dearest
20 Nr. 2 A better resurrection
21 Dark rose of my heart (nach Francis Scarfe)
22 An invite to eternity (nach John Clare)
23 The harlot's house (nach Oscar Wilde)

CD 2
1 Nr. 1 The garden of love
2 Nr. 2 Ah! Sun-flower!
3 Nr. 3 The sick rose
4 Nr. 4 The angel
5 Nr. 5 The fly
6 Nr. 6 Proverb
7 I loved you once (nach Aleksandr Pushkin und David Marsh)
8 She is all harmony, all wonder (nach Aleksandr Pushkin und David Marsh)
9 Some people's dreams (nach Irina Ratushinskaya und David McDuff)
10 Marguerite (nach Jean Froissart und David Marsh)
11 A red, red rose (nach Robert Burns)
12 It was a lover, and his lass (nach William Shakespeare)
13 See, dearest, how the rose (nach Pierre de Ronsard und David Marsh)
14 Arcades (nach John Milton)
15 We'll go no more a-roving (nach George Gordon)
16 Longing (nach Rainer Maria Rilke und Leon Berger)
17 Oh, why are the roses so pale? (nach Heinrich Heine, H. B. Fortuin und Leon Berger)
18 Old songs of lost love (nach Hermann Hesse und Leon Berger)
19 In the mist (nach Hermann Hesse und Leon Berger)
20 Raider's dawn (nach Alun Lewis)
21 The youth of the heart (nach Sydney Carter)
22 He wishes for the cloths of heaven (nach William Butler Yeats)
23 Bilbo's last song (nach J. R. R. Tolkien)

Felicity Lott, soprano • Kathryn Rudge, mezzo soprano • John Mark Ainsley, Tenor • Roderick Williams, baritone • Christopher Glynn, piano

Hyperion Records
Total Time 121'12"