Name: Sir Arthur Sullivan Songs
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Sir Arthur Sullivan Songs

£14.00

This two CD set includes a complete recording of Sullivan’s song cycle The Window as well as another 35 songs to texts by Shakespeare, Tennyson and others. The accompanying booklet gives a detailed analysis of the songs by David Owen Norris who accompanies Mary Bevan (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor) and Ashley Riches (bass-baritone) in this survey of Sullivan’s song output.

Description

Mary Bevan (soprano); Ben Johnson (tenor); Ashley Riches (bass-baritone); David Owen Norris (piano)

2 CD set
Duration: 80:54 (cd1) 68:45 (cd2)
Price: £14.00
Label: Chandos
Number: CHAN 10935(2)
Released: 2017

Track listing:
CD 1
1 – 5.	Five Shakespeare songs (1863-64)
	Sigh no more, ladies
	Orpheus with his lute
	O mistress mine
	The willow song
	Rosalind
6.	Love laid his sleepless head (1874)
7.	Nel ciel seren (1871)
8.	Where the bee sucks (1861)
9.	I wish to tune my quivering lyre (1868)
10.	Sweet day (1864)
11.	Arabian love song (1866)
12.	Birds in the night (1869)
13.	A life that lives for you (1870)
14.	Once again (1872)
15.	Golden days (1872)
16.	Guinevere (1872)
17.	None but I can say (181872)
18.	O Israel (1855)
19.	St Agnes’ Eve (1879)
20.	Edward Gary (1880)
21.	What does little birdie say? (1867)
22.	O swallow swallow (1900)
23.	Tears, idle tears (1900)

CD 2
1 – 11.	The Window; or, the Songs of the Wrens (1870)
	On the hill
	At the window
	Gone!
	Winter
	Spring
	The letter
	No answer
	No answer
	The answer
	When?
	Marriage morning
12.	Bid me at least goodbye (1894)
13.	E tu nol sai (1889)
14.	Ich möchte hinaus es jauchzen (1859)
15.	Lied mit Thränen halbgeschrieben (1861)
16.	Oh! ma charmante (1872)
17.	I would I were a King (1878)
18.	Sad memories (1869)
19.	Ever (1887)
20.	Mary Morrison (1874)
21.	Old love letters (1879)
22.	County Guy (1867)
23.	Sweethearts (1875)