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Down by the Salley Gardens: 19th & 20th Century English Songs / Bejun Mehta

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2011-09-13

Works: Herbert Howells: King David for voice & piano; Songs, Op. 22; The Little Boy Lost, song; Roger Quilter: Shakespeare Songs (5), Op. 23; Come away death, for voice & piano, Op. 6/1; O mistress mine, fo...
Performers: Drake, Julius [Piano]; Mehta, Bejun [Countertenor Vocal]

Down by the Salley Gardens offers a vivid and varied cross-section of English song, ranging from the Edwardian aesthetic of Quilter and early Vaughan Williams...continue...
Recording information: Teldex Studio Berlin (09/2010)....continue...

Cesare Valletti sings Mozart, Scarlatti, Schubert, Berlioz, etc

2 CD / Testament / 2008-06-10

Works: Giuseppe Sarti: Giulio Sabino; Alessandro Stradella: Le gare dell'amor eroico; Alessandro Scarlatti: Work(s); Il Pirro e Demetrio; Il Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme; Il Flavio; George Frederick Handel: M...
Performers: Taubman, Leo; Valletti, Cesare [Tenor Vocals]

The leading operatic 'tenore di grazia' of the 1950s and '60s, Cesare Valletti (1922-2000) was also an incomparable interpreter of songs. A few years after...continue...