| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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Poems of love and the rain (24:55). Prologue and epilogue (Donald Windham) ; Stop all the clocks (W.H. Auden) ; The air is the only (Howard Moss) ; Love's stricken "Why?" (Emily Dickinson) ; The apparition (Roethke) ; Do I love you (Jack Larson) ; In the rain (e.e. cummings) ; Song for lying in bed during a night rain (Kenneth Pitchford) ; Interlude (Roethke) |
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Four madrigals (6:28) (Sappho, tr. Bowra). Parting ; Flowers for the graces ; Love ; An absent friend |
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From an unknown past (9:46). The lover in winter plaineth for the spring (16th cent.?) ; Hey nonny no (Christ Church Ms.) ; My blood so red (anon.) ; Suspiria (anon.) ; The miracle (ca. 1600) ; Tears (Dowland's Third and last book of songs or airs, 1603) ; Crabbed age and youth (Shakespeare?) |
| Notes |
The 1st work a song cycle; the 2nd and 3rd works originally for chorus (SATB), unacc., performed here by 4 solo voices |
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Sung in English; words from various sources |
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Analog recording |
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Probable reissue of analog disc: Desto DC 6480 (p1969) |
| Performer |
Beverly Wolff, mezzo-soprano ; Ned Rorem, piano (1st work) ; Modern Madrigal Quartet (2nd-3rd works) |
| Notes |
Hard copy version record |
| Subject |
Songs (Medium voice) with piano.
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Song cycles.
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Vocal quartets, Unaccompanied.
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Song cycles.
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Songs (Medium voice) with piano.
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Vocal quartets, Unaccompanied.
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| Genre/Form |
Streaming audio
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Song cycles.
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Song cycles.
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Cycles de mélodies.
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| Form |
Streaming audio
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| Author |
Wolff, Beverly
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Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022
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Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022.
Poems of love and the rain
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Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022.
Madrigals, mixed voices
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Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022.
From an unknown past
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Modern Madrigal Quartet.
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