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.

LENNOX BERKELEY: How Love Came In • BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Master Kilby • BENJAMIN BRITTEN: O Waly, Waly • BENJAMIN BRITTEN: The Salley Gardens • AARON COPLAND: The Boatmen’s Dance • AARON COPLAND: I bought me a cat • AARON COPLAND: Long Time Ago • GERALD FINZI: Oh fair to see • GERALD FINZI: Since we loved • MICHAEL HEAD: Money, O! • JOHN IRELAND: Spring Sorrow • HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten): Fairest Isle • 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: Barbara Allen • ROGER QUILTER: O mistress mine • ROGER QUILTER: Take, O take those lips away • ROGER QUILTER: Weep you no more • NED ROREM: Little Elegy • NED ROREM: The Nightingale • NED ROREM: Stopping by woods one snowy evening • RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bright is the ring of words • RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea • RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Vagabond • PETER WARLOCK: As ever I saw