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Sylvia McNair: The Echoing Air The Music of Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Part I -Staircase Overture -"If Music Be the Food of Love" Z397C (Henry Heveningham) -Cebell -"To Arms" -"Tell Me, Some Pitying Angel" Z 196 (Nahum Tate) -Slow Air Part II -"We Come To Sing" -"Oh! Lead Me to Some Peaceful Gloom" Z 574/17a (Bonduca, 1695) -"O Solitude" Z 406 (Katherine Philips) -"Hark! Hark! the Echoing Air" Z629/48bc (The Fairy Queen, 1692) -Trumpet Tune Part III -"Sweeter Than Roses" Z585/1 (Richard Norton) (Pausanias, 1695) -"Fairest Isle" Z628/38 (John Dryden)(King Arthur, 1691) -"She That Would Gain a Faithful Lover" Z414 (Lady E-. M-.) -"Cupid, the Slyest Rogue Alive" Z367 (after•nach•d'après Theocritus) -"I Attempt from Love's Sickness To Fly" Z630/17h (The Indian Queen, 1695) -Jig Part IV -"Music for a While" Z583/2 (John Dryden) -"The Fatal Hour Comes On Apace" Z421 -"Hear, Mighty Love" -Plainte: "O, Let Me Weep" Z629/40ab (The Fairy Queen, 1692) -Chacony in G minor, Z 730 g-mollDate1995 -
The Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Live from Wigmore Hall
George Gershwin (1898-1937) Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) "Someone to Watch Over Me" from Oh Kay!, 1926 "A Foggy Day" from the film A Damsel in Distress, 1937/"Embraceable You" "Isn't It A Pity?" from Pardon My English, 1933 "Stiff Upper Lip" from the film A Damsel in Distress, 1937/"Let's Call The Whole Thing Off!" from Shall We Dance?, 1937 "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess, 1935 "For You, For Me, For Evermore" from The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, 1946 "I Got Rhythm" from Girl Crazy, 1930 Kurt Weil (1900-1950) "My Ship" from Lady in the Dark, 1940 -
Divine Sopranos
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Fourteen Songs -"Vocalise", Op. 34, No. 14 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra David Zinman, conductor Sylvia McNair, soprano George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) "Rejoice Greatly" from Messiah Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus Robert Shaw, conductor Sylvia McNair, soprano Kaaren Erickson, soprano Alfreda Hodgson, mezzo-soprano Jon Humphrey, tenor Richard Stilwell, baritone Layton James, harpsichordDate1994 -
Previn: From Ordinary Things
André Previn (1929-2019) Four Songs for soprano, cello and piano (1994) Poems by Toni Morrison Two Remembrances for soprano, alto flute and piano (1995) Vocalise for soprano, cello and piano (1995)Date1997 -
Sylvia McNair: Rêveries mélodies françaises [French melodies]
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Ariettes Oubliées -"C'est l'extase langoureuse" -"Il pleure dans mon cœur" -"L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée" -"Paysages belges: Chevaux de bois" -"Aquarelles: I. Green" -"Aquarelles: II. Spleen" Georges Bizet (1838-1875) -"La coccinelle" -"Adieux de l'hôtesse arabe" -"Pastel" -"Vous ne priez pas" Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) Trois mélodies -"Pourquoi" -"Le sourire" -"La fiancée perdue" Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) -"Rêve d'amour" -"Au bord de l'eau" -"Notre amour" Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) "Bleuet" "Banalités" -"Hôtel" -"Voyage à Paris" "Métamorphoses" -"Reine des mouettes -"C'est ainsi que tu es" -"Paganini"Date1997 -
