Olivier Messiaen – Poèmes pour Mi

UKCD 2085

JANE MANNING soprano
DAVID MASON piano

1-4. Book 1 13:26
5-6. Book 2 14:31
10-15. Chants de Terre et de Ciel 27 :23

Total duration:        56 :33

Rebecca Clarke

GAM CD 534

PATRICIA WRIGHT, JONATHAN REES, KATHRON STURROCK

1. June Twilight – John Masefield 2.53
2. A Dream – W.B. Yeats 2.03
3. The Cherry-Blossom Wand – Anna Wickham 2.45
4. The Cloths of Heaven – W.B. Yeats 2.00
5. Shy One – W.B. Yeats 1.28
6. The Seal Man – John Masefield 5.25
7. Midsummer Moon 6.40
8. Down by the Salley Gardens -W.B. Yeats 1.45
9. Infant Joy -William Blake 1.09
10. Lethe – Edna St Vincent Millay  3.17
11. Phillis on the New Made Hay – A.E. Houseman 2.36
12. It was a Lover and his Lass – Thomas Morley 1.56
13. The Tailor and his Mouse – A.E. Houseman 1.43
14. The Tiger – William Blake 3.56
15. Tears – A.E. Houseman 1.20
16. God Made a Tree – Katherine Kendall 2.08
17. Come, oh Come, my Life’s Delight – Rebecca Clarke 1.45
18. Greeting – Ella Young 1.19
19. The Donkey – G.K. Chesterton 2.30
20. Chinese Puzzle 1.15
21. Lullaby 3.36
22. I Know my Love – A.E. Houseman 2.02
23. I Know Where I’m Going – A.E. Houseman 2.49
24. As I was goin’ to Ballynure – A.E. Houseman 1.35
25. Cradle Song – William Blake 2.47
26. Eight O’clock – A.E. Houseman 2.11
27. A Psalm of David 4.33
28. The Aspidistra  – Claude Flight 2.07

Total Time:        75.21

Charles Ives – Songs Volume I

DKP(CD) 9111

HENRY HERFORD baritone
ROBIN BOWMAN piano

1. Two Little Flowers 0:58
2. The Children’s Hour 2:53
3. Memories A and B 2:21
4. The Side Show 0:37
5. The Things our Fathers loved 1:53
6. The Circus Band 1:57
7. Berceuse 2:02
8. There is a certain Garden 1:36
9. In Flanders Fields 2:15
10. They are There 2:17
11. Tom Sails Away 3:03
12. Immortality 1:34
13. The Housatonic at Stockbridge 3:55
14. From The Swimmers 1:15
15. The Indians 2:08
16. The New River 0:52
17. Peaks 2:30
18. Yellow Leaves 1:49
19. from Paracelsus 3:09
20. West London 3:05
21. Ann Street 0:57
22. The White Gulls 2:21
23. The See’r 0:50
24. Pictures 2:36
25. Where the Eagle 1:30
26. General William Booth enters into Heaven 4:56
27. In the Mornin’ 2:47

Total Duration:        60:05

A-Courting we will go

UKCD2009

KATHLEEN LIVINGSTONE soprano
JOHN BLAKELY piano
NEIL MACKIE tenor
JOSEPH HAYDN (1732 – 1809) *Zwei italienische Duette (1796)

1. Saper vorrei se m’ami 5:17
2. Guarda qui che lo vedrai 3:42

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Zwei Duette

3. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt op.62 no.1 4:36
4. Licht und Liebe 4:52

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810- 1856) Fünf Duette

5. Liebhabers Ständchen op.34 no.2 2:25
6. Er und Sie op.78 no.2 4:01
7. Tanzlied op.78 no.1 2:37
8. In der Nacht op.74 no.4 5:45
9. Mailied op. 103 no.1 1:17

DARIUS MILHAUD (1892-1974)   *Trois Elégles (op. Posth. 1939)

10. Dis-moi, dis-moi 3:20
11. Sur le sable des allées 2 :01
12. Mon amour, disais-Tu 2 :46

BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976) *Two Ballards (1937)

13. Mother Comfort 3:34
14. Underneath the Abject Willow 1:58
*Folk Song arrangement (c. 1958)
15. Soilder, won’t you marry me? 1:55

CHRISTOPHER BROWN (b. 1943) *A-Courting we will go (1973)

16. Blow ye winds in the morning 1:25
17. Oh, no John 1:35
18. Strawberry Fair 1:39
19. I will give my love an apple 3:09
20. A-roving 2:43

Total duration:        62:20

*first recordings

Olivier Messiaen – Harawi (Chant d’amour et de mort)

UKCD 2084

1. La Ville qui dormait, toi 1:54
2. Bonjour toi, colombe verte 3:19
3. Montagnes 2:48
4. Doundou Tchil 3:52
5. L’amour de Piroutcha 3:28
6. Répétition planétaire 5:51
7. Adieu 7:51
8. Syllabes 5:01
9. L’escalier redit, gestes du soleil 4:58
10. Amour oiseau d’étoile 4:49
11. Katchikatchi les étoiles 1:55
12. Dans le noir 5:14

Total duration:        50:53

JANE MANNING soprano
DAVID MILLER piano

Romantic French Songs

UKCD 2078

GEORGES ENESCO (1881-1955)
1-7. Sept Chansons de Clément Marot Op.15 (1908) 13:15

ALBERT ROUSSEL (1869-1937)
8. Light Op. 19, No.1 (1918) 3:12
9-10. Deux Mélodies, Op.20 (1919) 4:56
11-12. Deux Poèmes chinois, Op.35 (1927) 4:41
13. Jazz dans la nuit, Op.38 (1928) 3:55

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
14-16. Trois Chansons de Bilitis (1897-8) 8:41
17-19. Trois Chansons de France (1904) 5:46
20-22. Fêtes Galantes (II) (1904) 7:25
23. Les Cloches (c. 1883) 2:10
24. Mandoline (1882) 1:21
25. Beau Soir (c. 1880) 2:43

Total duration:        56:05

SARAH WALKER mezzo soprano
ROGER VIGNOLES piano