Edited by Richard Walters.
This series of 5 book/CD packs is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen opera arias, an oratorio aria, and an operetta aria by Gilbert & Sullivan.
Contents include:
Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen (Mozart)
An die Nachtigall
Cara e dolce (Scarlatti)
Che faro senza Euridice? from ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Gluck)
Clair de lune (G. Fauré)
Come again, sweet love (Dowland)
Der Tod und das Mädchen
Dolente immagine di Fille mia (Bellini)
Du Ring an meinem Finger (Schumann)
El pano moruno (de Falla)
Fair House of Joy (Quilter)
Flow my tears (Dowland)
If Music Be The Food Of Love (Purcell)
Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (Brahms)
It was a lover and his lass (Quilter)
La maja dolorosa No. 1 (Granados)
Love's Philosophy (Quilter)
Mandoline (Fauré)
Nymphs and Shepherds (Purcell)
O del mio amato ben (Donaudy)
Ouvre ton coeur (Bizet)
Plaisir d'amour (Martini)
Qui sedes from GLORIA (A. Vivaldi)
Se nel ben sempre incostante (Stradella)
Silent Noon (Vaughan Williams)
Voi che sapete from LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart)
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (Dowland)
When Daisies Pied (Arne)
When Frederic Was a Little Lad from THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Sullivan)
Zueignung (Strauss)
