Composers, Songs and Singers

Aired on WCBN FM 10/25/15

In memoriam Helen Biadaszkiewicz Grenier

Anton Webern

Earliest Spring 1899

Dorothy Dorow

Arnold Schoenberg

Sunshine in the Forest 1899

Sandrine Piau

Alban Berg

Night 1907

Brigitte Baileys

Hans Werner Henze

By the Waters of the Fountains 1956

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Olivier Messiaen

Why? 1930

Ingrid Kappelle

Morton Feldman

The O’Hara Songs 1962

Charles van Tassel

Alexander von Zemlinsky

The Morning Star 1891

Ruth Ziesak

Hugo Wolf

At Midnight 1888

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Gustav Mahler

I Breathed a Gentle Fragrance 1901

Dame Janet Baker

Gustav Mahler

St.Anthony of Padua’s Sermon to the Fish 1893

Mitsuko Shirai

Johannes Brahms

Sapphic Ode 1884

Nathalie Stutzmann

Robert Schumann

Sweetheart, You Gaze at Me 1840

Sena Jurinac

Sergei Prokofiev

The Rosy Dawn is Coloring the East 1936

Andrey Slavny

A.S. Dargomizhsky

Night Zephyr 1844

Anatoly Fokanov

Modest Mussorgsky

Mephistopheles’ Song of the Flea 1879

Feodor Chaliapin recorded in St.Petersburg 1907

Hector Berlioz

La Villanelle & The Spectre of the Rose 1841

Jan DeGaetani

Francis Poulenc

Montparnasse c.1941

Dame Felicity Lott

Claude Debussy

Zephyr 1881

Sandrine Piau

Fryderyk Chopin

The Leaves Are Falling 1836

Ewa Podles

Charles Ives

Songs My Mother Taught Me 1895

Thomas Hampson

Antonin Dvorak

And the Wood’s Silent all Around Me 1880

Dagmar Peckova

Felix Mendelssohn

I Want to Declare My Love to You 1836

Sophie Daneman & Nathan Berg

W.A.Mozart

The Magician 1785

The Old Lady 1787

Mitsuko Shirai

Gilbert & Sullivan

The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze

{from The Mikado 1885}

Margaret Mitchell

Michael William Balfe

Come into the Garden, Maude 1857

John McCormack, recorded in 1915

Stephen Foster

There’s a Good Time Coming 1846

Leslie Guinn

Henry Purcell

Here the Deities Approve

{from Welcome to All the Pleasures 1683}

Collegium Vocale

Henry Purcell/Benjamin Britten

I Sail Upon the Dog Star

Neil Mackie

Franz Schubert

Lutzow’s Wild Hunt 1815

Die Singphoniker

Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht

Song on the Inadequacy of Human Aspiration 1928

Teresa Stratas

Alexander von Zemlinsky

As I Stroll in the Woods of an Evening 1892

Hans-Peter Blochwitz

Claudio Monteverdi

My Heart, As I Gaze Upon You

My Heart, Are You Not Dying?

{from the 4^th Book of Madrigals, published 1603}

Delitiae Musicae

Franz Josef Haydn

Mermaid’s Song

{Now the Dancing Sunbeams Play} pre-1794

Elly Ameling

Antonio Vivaldi

Whispering Little Zephyrs c.1723

Cecilia Bartoli

Dmitri Shostakovich

Comin’ Thro’ the Rye 1971

Alexai Mochalov

Benedetto Ferrari

Lovers, I Can Tell You {17^th Century}

Anne Sofie von Otter

Georg Philipp Telemann

Pastorell {18^th Century}

Peter Schreirer

J.S.Bach

Agnus Dei from the B Minor Mass 1749

Anne Sofie von Otter

John Dowland

Weep You No More, Sad Fountains 1603

John Potter

French Medieval Songs:

The Siren Lives in the Sea

In May, in the Sweet New Season

Anne Azema