Swann: Songs - Felicity Lott, Roderick Williams, Kathryn Rudge, John Mark Ainsley

                    
A collection of songs[13'21]
Roderick Williams (baritone)
CD1
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The licorice fields at Pontefract  In the licorice fields at Pontefract[2'07]
2
Margate 1940  From out the Queen’s Highcliffe for weeks at a stretch[4'05]
3
Senex  Oh would I could subdue the flesh[2'08]
4
A subaltern's love song  Miss J Hunter Dunn, Miss J Hunter Dunn[5'01]
Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson[8'16]
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano)
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Farewell  Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord[1'23]
6
I died for Beauty[1'34]
7
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain[2'12]
8
Dying  I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—[1'08]
9
I had no time to Hate[1'59]
Two sonnets by Edna St Vincent Millay[3'43]
Roderick Williams (baritone)
10
And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you[2'13]
11
Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet[1'30]
12
Stopping by woods  Whose woods are these I think I know[4'50]
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
Two poems by Thomas Hardy[5'53]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
13
Thoughts of Phena  Not a line of her writing have I[2'59]
14
Before life and after  A time there was—as one may guess[2'54]
Four lyrics from In memoriam[9'53]
15
Be near me when my light is low[2'10]
Roderick Williams (baritone)
16
Oh yet we trust that somehow good[2'31]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
17
The wish[2'51]
Roderick Williams (baritone)
18
There rolls the deep[2'21]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Two poems by Christina Rossetti[4'56]
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano)
19
When I am dead, my dearest[2'13]
20
A better resurrection  I have no wit, no words, no tears[2'43]
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Dark rose of my heart  Hour by hour flow my tears in the darkness[3'57]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
22
An invite to eternity  Wilt thou go with me, sweet maid[4'59]
Roderick Williams (baritone)
23
The harlot’s house  We caught the tread of dancing feet  (No 1 of Two poems by Oscar Wilde)[4'10]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Six songs to poems by William Blake[9'01]
Roderick Williams (baritone)
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The Garden of Love  I went to the Garden of Love[1'35]
25
Ah! Sun-flower![1'26]
26
The sick Rose  O Rose thou art sick[1'00]
27
The Angel  I Dreamt a Dream! What can it mean?[2'20]
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The Fly  Little Fly[1'40]
29
Proverb  He who binds to himself a joy[1'00]
30
Ya vas lyubil 'I loved you once'[2'52]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
31
She is all harmony, all wonder[2'33]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
32
Some people's dreams[3'42]
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
33
Marguerite  The fairest flow’r of all, men call the rose[3'31]
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
34
A red, red rose  O my love’s like a red, red rose[2'10]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
35
It was a lover, and his lass[1'58]
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
36
See, dearest, how the rose[1'58]
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
37
Arcades  O’er the smooth enamelled green[1'51]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
38
We'll go no more a-roving  So, we’ll go no more a-roving[1'15]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
39
Longing  Beneath the spreading wings of evening[2'41]
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
40
Oh, why are the roses so pale?[1'57]
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
41
Old songs of lost love  How heavy hang the days![5'12]
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
42
In the mist  Strange in the mist to wander![2'42]
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
43
Raiders' dawn  Softly the civilized centuries fall[2'05]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
44
The youth of the heart  When I was a young man I hadn’t a penny[4'26]
Roderick Williams (baritone)
45
He wishes for the cloths of heaven  Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths[2'46]
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano)
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Bilbo’s last song  Day is ended, dim my eyes  (No 9 of The road goes ever on)[4'27]
Roderick Williams (baritone), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano)