Description
Title: Songs of War
Artist: Simon Keenlyside
Label: Sony Masterworks
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 886979442429
Genre: Classical, Classical Vocal Crossover
Release Date: 2011-11-29
Number of Discs: 1
2011 album from the British baritone. The album reflects such universal themes as fear, yearning, loss, restlessness, homesickness and love, and is dominated by English composers, including Vaughan Williams, Arthur Somervell, George Butterworth, Peter Warlock, Frank Bridge, Gerald Finzi and John Ireland but also includes songs by Ned Rorem and Kurt Weill.
Tracks:
1.1 Sea Fever (Ireland)
1.2 Into My Heart An Air That Kills (Somervell)
1.3 Youth and Love (Vaughan Williams)
1.4 The Infinite Shining Heavens (Vaughan Williams)
1.5 Loveliest of Trees
1.6 When I Was One – and
1.7 Look Not in My Eyes
1.8 Think No More, Lad
1.9 The Lads in Their Hundreds
1.10 Is My Team Ploughing?
1.11 There Pass the Careless People (Somervell)
1.12 The Night (Warlock)
1.13 White in the Moon (Somervell)
1.14 Bredon Hill (Butterworth)
1.15 O Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain (Butterworth)
1.16 When the Lad for Longing Sighs (Butterworth)
1.17 On the Idle Hill of Summer (Butterworth)
1.18 With Rue My Heart Is Laden (Butterworth)
1.19 The Vagabond (Ireland)
1.20 The Three Ravens (Trad. Arr Ireland)
1.21 Fear No More the Heat O” the Sun (Finzi)
1.22 Thy Hand in Mine (Bridge)
1.23 The Vagabond (Vaughan Williams)
1.24 An Incident (Rorem)
1.25 When Death to Either Shall Come (Gurney)
1.26 In Flanders (Gurney)
1.27 The Street Sounds to the Soldiers” Tread (Somervell)
1.28 Beat! Beat! Drums! (Weill)
1.29 Dirge for Two Veterans (Weill)
