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Tell Me the Truth About Love songs by Britten, Schumann, Boulanger, Chausson et al. / Amanda Roocroft, soprano; Joseph Middleton, piano

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2012-10-30

Works: Benjamin Britten: Tell me the Truth about Love, for voice & piano (Cabaret Songs); Early one morning, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 5); Robert Schumann: Seit ich ihn gesehen, song for voice & p...
Performers: Middleton, Joseph [Piano]; Roocroft, Amanda

Charting the course of a love affair - in song - through the eyes of a young woman who begins by asking the universal question,...continue...
Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex (08/19/2011-08/26/2011)....continue...

The Power of Love: An English Songbook / Alice Coote, Graham Johnson

1 CD / Hyperion / 2012-02-14

Works: James Lyman Molloy: Love's Old Sweet Song; Maude Valérie White: So We'll Go No More A-roving, for voice & piano; The Spring Has Come, for voice & piano; The Devout Lover, for voice & piano; Edwa...
Performers: Coote, Alice; Johnson, Graham [Piano]

Alice Coote, one of the most distinctive mezzo-sopranos of today, makes her recital debut on Hyperion with pianist Graham Johnson, a stalwart of the label...continue...
Recording information: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (2010-12-15&2010-12-15&2010-)....continue...

Songbook: The Trebles of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum

1 CD / Delphian Records / 2012-01-10

Works: Roger Quilter: Music, When Soft Voices die for voice & piano, Op. 25/5; Love's Philosophy, for voice & piano, Op. 3/1; Arvo Pärt: Vater unser, for boy soprano or unison children's chorus & piano...
Performers: Etherington, Carleton; Nicholas, Benjamin
Conductors: Nicholas, Benjamin
Ensemble: Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum

This 'songbook' is unique to the Schola Cantorum choristers of Tewkesbury Abbey - essentially, it's a showcase for the Abbey trebles. This is evident most...continue...
Recording information: Merton College Chapel, Oxford (07/05/2010-07/07/2010)....continue...

My Own Country: An English song collection / Felicity Lott, soprano; Graham Johnson, piano

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2011-09-27

Works: Hubert Parry: O Mistress Mine, for voice & piano (from English Lyrics, Set 2); My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird; Under the greenwood tree; Good Night; John Ireland: The trellis, for voice & piano (fr...
Performers: Johnson, Graham [Piano]; Lott, Felicity [Soprano Vocal]

My Own Country allows the highly respected Dame Felicity Lott to bring her delicacy and rich musical understanding to a collection of English songs inspired...continue...
Recording information: The Music Room, Champs Hill, Pulborough, Sussex, UK (05/14/2003-05/16/2003)....continue...

English Love: Songs of Passion, Pain & Pleasure / / Mark Stone, baritone; Stephen Barlow, piano

1 CD / Stone Records / 2011-08-09

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: House of life; Love bade me welcome, song for baritone, chorus (ad lib.) orchestra (Mystical Songs no 3); John Dowland: Awake sweet love, P 92; Come Again; Roger Quilter: Go, ...
Performers: Barlow, Stephen; Stone, Mark [Baritone Vocal]

Featuring the world premiere recording of Stephen Barlow's "If thou would'st ease thine heart," this disc includes 25 beautiful English love songs superbly performed by...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK (11/11/2008-11/13/2008)....continue...

Shakespeare Inspired / Mezzo Michelle Breedt

1 CD / TwoPianists / 2011-05-31

Works: Edward Elgar: Pageant of Empire, songs (8) for voice (or chorus) & orchestra; Pleading, Op. 48; Thomas Arne: When Daisies pied and Violets blue, song; Mervyn Horder: When Daisies Pied, for voice & pi...
Performers: Breedt, Michelle; Schumann, Nina

South African-born Michelle Breedt, best known for her stellar performances of Wagner in particular, her versatility from the opera to the concert is remarkably captured...continue...
Recording information: Endler Hall, Stellenbosch University, South Africa (11/22/2010-11/28/2010)....continue...

Art Songs of the British Romantics / Stanley Wilson, tenor

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2011-05-10

Works: Frank Bridge: Blow blow thou winter wind, for voice & piano, H. 33; Adoration, for voice & piano (or orchestra), H 57; The Last Invocation, for voice & piano, H. 136; Love went a-riding, for voice & ...
Performers: Halliday, Malcolm; Wilson, Stanley [Tenor Vocal]

A graduate of the Longy School in Opera Performance, tenor Stanley Wilson continues his studies with William Hicks. He has amassed an extensive list of...continue...
Recording information: Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA (2010-01-19&2010-02-18&2010-)....continue...

Summertime

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2010-05-25

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Samuel Barber: Songs (4), Op. 13; The Monk and His Cat, song for voice & piano (Hermit Songs), Op. 29/8; Edward Elgar: Op. 16; Gabriel Fauré: Clair de lune, Op. ...
Performers: Johnson, Graham [Piano]; Lott, Felicity [Soprano Vocal]

Three centuries of song are represented here, and, as BBC Music Magazine's Hilary Finch put it "such is the skill of Johnson's programming that the...continue...
Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, Pulborough, Sussex (04/06/2000-04/09/2000)....continue...

Songs My Mother Told Me

1 CD / EtCetera Records / 2009-09-01

Works: Ernest Charles: When I have sung my songs; Clouds, for voice & piano; Youth, for voice & piano; Charles Gilbert Spross: Let All My Life Be Music; Richard Hageman: Do not go, my love; Music I Heard wi...
Performers: Alexander, Roberta [Soprano Vocals]; Masuda, Brian

Jennifer Larmore in Concert

1 CD / Video Artists International / 2004-08-24

Works: Henry Purcell: Music for a while; George Frederick Handel: Semele; Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide; Péchés de vieillesse, Volume 1 "Album italiano"; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Claude Debus...
Performers: Larmore, Jennifer; Palloc, Antoine

The English Song Series 5 - Quilter / Rolfe-Johnson, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-09-01

Works: Roger Quilter: Shakespeare Songs (5), Op. 23; Take, o take those lips away, song for voice & piano, Op. 23/4; O mistress mine, for voice & piano, Op. 6/2; How Should I your true love know?, for voice...
Performers: Fuller, Louisa; Johnson, Graham [Piano]; McCready, Ivan; Milne, Lisa; Rolfe Johnson, Anthony [Tenor Vocal]

"Soprano Lisa Milne and tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson both deliver satisfying performances. Both display sensitivity, musicality, intelligence, and technical prowess. The accompaniments are likewise fin...continue...

Delos Double - Arleen Auger - American Soprano

2 CD / Delos / 2000-01-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Giulio Cesare; Atalanta; Giulio Cesare, HWV 17; Rinaldo; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 209, "Non sa che sia dolore" BWV 209; Bist du bei mir, aria arranged f...
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Baldwin, Dalton
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard; Parisot, Aldo

This generous 2-for-1 package not only features the very well-received discs of Arleen Auger on Delos, but also the lesser-known Bachianas No. 5 with the...continue...

Twenty-Four Aspects of an Amourous Nature / Jeffes, Woodcock

1 CD / Symposium / 1995-06-01

Works: John Ireland: The Salley Gardens, for voice & piano (from "Songs Sacred and Profane"); The sacred flame, for voice & piano; Frank Bridge: Isobel, for voice & piano, H. 102; Love went a-riding, for vo...
Performers: Jeffes, Peter; Woodcock, David

Quilter: Songs / Benjamin Luxon, David Willison

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Roger Quilter: Love's Philosophy, for voice & piano, Op. 3/1; Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2; At the Close of Day; Shakespeare Songs (3) for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op....
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Willison, David