RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)

1

Rote Rosen, o.op 76 (1883)

2:13

Red Roses - words Karl Stieler (1842-1885)

2

Die erwachte Rose, o.op. 66 (1880)

2:57

The Rose Awoken - words Friedrich von Saller (1812-1843)

3

Begegnung, o.op 72 (1880)

2:03

Meeting - words Otto Friedrich Gruppe (1804-1876)

RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)

Wesendonck-Lieder (1857/58)

18:52

Fünf Gedicthe für eine Frauenstimme mit Pianoforte-Begleitung - words Mathilde Wesendonck (1828-1902)

4

I

Der Engel - The Angel

2:53

5

II

Stehe still! - Stand still!

3:36

6

III

Im Treibhaus - In the greenhouse Studie zu Tristan und Isolde

5:22

7

IV

Schmerzen - Pain

2:19

8

V

Träume - Sreams Studie zu Tristan und Isolde

4:42

SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)

Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), Op. 27 (1916)

11:44

9

I

Solnce komnatu napolnilo - Sunlight has filled the chamber

1:22

10

II

Nastojaschchuju nezhnost' - True tenderness

1:33

11

III

Pamjat' o solnce - Thoughts of the sunlight

3:08

12

IV

Zdravstvuj! - Hello!

1:47

13

V

Seroglazïj korol' - The grey-eyed king

3:54

BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976)

The Poet's Echo ('Ekho Po'eta) - Six poems of Pushkin (1799-1837), op. 76

16:42

for High Voice and Piano (1965)

14

I

'Ekho - Echo

3:05

15

II

Ja dumal, serdce pozabylo - My Heart…

1:44

16

III

Angel

2:31

17

IV

Solovej i roza - The Nightingale and the Rose

4:08

18

V

'Epigramma - Epigram

0:50

19

VI

Stikhi, sochinennyje noch'ju vo vremja bessonnicy - Lines written during a sleepless night

4:24

ROGER QUILTER (1877-1953)

20

Fair House of Joy, Op. 12, No. 7 (1907)

2:14

from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics - words attrib. Tobias Hume (c. 1569-1645)

21

Autumn Evening, Op. 14 No. 1 (1909/10)

3:06

words Arthur Maquarie (1874-1955)

22

Dream Valley, Op. 20 No. 1 (1916)

2:34

from Three William Blake Songs (1757-1827)

23

Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (1905)

1:28

words Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

NED ROREM (b. 1923)

24

Early in the Morning (1958)

1:54

words Robert Hillyer (1895-1961) - Dedicated to Pierre Quézel

25

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (1969)

4:09

words Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

26

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come (16 July 1957)

0:29

words from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) - Dedicated to Maggy Magerstadt

27

Little Elegy (28 March 1948)

1:23

words Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) - Dedicated to Nell Tangemann

28

Alleluia (1949)

2:44

Dedicated to Jenny Tourel

Susan Bullock soprano

Malcolm Martineau piano

21-25 May 2006