The Developing Classical Singer Songs by British and American Composers - Soprano

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. DOMINICK ARGENTO: Dirge • DOMINICK ARGENTO: Spring • LEONARD BERNSTEIN: I hate music! • LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Jupiter has seven moons • FRANK BRIDGE: Love went a-riding • BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Come you not from Newcastle? • BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Early one morning • BENJAMIN BRITTEN: O Waly, Waly • AARON COPLAND: The Little Horses • AARON COPLAND: Simple Gifts • AARON COPLAND: Why do they shut me out of Heaven? • JOHN DUKE: Central Park at Dusk • GERALD FINZI: Oh fair to see • RICHARD HUNDLEY: When children are playing on the green • JOHN IRELAND: Spring Sorrow • C. HUBERT H. PARRY: A Spring Song • HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten): I attempt from love's sickness • HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten): If music be the food of love (1st version) • ROGER QUILTER: Dream Valley • ROGER QUILTER: Love's Philosophy • ROGER QUILTER: Weep you no more • NED ROREM: Little Elegy • NED ROREM: Love • CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: A Lullaby • RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bright is the ring of words • RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea • RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The sky above the roof