Description

The selection of songs has been carefully considered to represent a variety of composers from primarily the twentieth century. Songs were chosen that are appropriate challenges to the advancing teenage singer, or for the university student.

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Greensleeves • BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Master Kilby • BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Morning • BENJAMIN BRITTEN: O Waly, Waly • BENJAMIN BRITTEN: The Salley Gardens • AARON COPLAND: I bought me a cat • AARON COPLAND: The Little Horses • AARON COPLAND: Simple Gifts • JOHN DUKE: Central Park at Dusk • GERALD FINZI: Come away, death • GERALD FINZI: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun • GERALD FINZI: It was a lover and his lass • MICHAEL HEAD: Money, O! • JOHN IRELAND: Spring Sorrow • HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten): I attempt from love’s sickness • HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten): I’ll sail upon the Dog-star • ROGER QUILTER: O mistress mine • ROGER QUILTER: Three Poor Mariners • ROGER QUILTER: Weep you no more • NED ROREM: Stopping by woods one snowy evening • RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bright is the ring of words • RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Vagabond • RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Youth and Love • PETER WARLOCK: As ever I saw