Sure on this shining night20th-century romantic songs of America
Chandler - Beach - Chadwick - Schuman - u.a.
Robert White (Tenor) - Samuel Sanders (Piano)
Hyperion Records
1 CD
000:00
Chor / Lied
1999-01-01
The Children (Feeney) The Year's at the spring (Browning) When stars are in the quiet skies (Bulwer-Lytton) Orpheus with his lute (Shakespeare) Rose Marie (Harbach & Hammerstein) The Side Show (Ives, after Rooney) Song to the witch of The Cloisters (Hoffman) Lieder op. 13 Nr. 1-4 Barber, Samuel Nr. 3 Sure on This Shining Night Sigh no more, ladies (Shakespeare) Come away, death (Shakespeare) On hearing "The last rose of summer" (Wolfe) Echo (Moore) If I could tell you (Marshall) The Collection (Kingsley) The Lord's Prayer Nature, the gentlest mother (Dickinson) The Tiger (Blake) Never more will the wind (Doolittle) Little Elegy (Wylie) One Alone (Harbach & Hammerstein) Do not go, my love (Tagore) To a Stranger (Whitman) When I have sung my songs (Charles) These, my Ophelia (MacLeish) An Old Song Re-sung (Masefield) Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life (Johnson Young) June Night (Higginson) Triolet (O'Neill)
Chandler - Beach - Chadwick - Schuman - u.a.Robert White (Tenor) - Samuel Sanders (Piano)Label : Hyperion Records
Tenor Robert White sings 28 romantic songs spanning the century by both native American and immigrant composers, from Amy Beach in 1899 to Marc Marder's Walt Whitman setting of 1996. There are many favourites (or 'favorites') here from the musical stage, including Friml's Rose Marie and Victor Herbert's Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life. Malotte's famous setting of The Lord's Prayer is also included.
