This unique compilation is a wonderful, substantial sampling of art song in the English language, featuring composers from both sides of the Atlantic. The publication includes many first-time transpositions, as the song list is the same for the High Voice and Low Voice editions.
At the River (Copland) Heart, we will forget him (Copland) The Little Horses (Copland) Poet's Song (Copland) Why do they shut me out of Heaven? (Copland) Acrostic Song (Del Tredici) Central Park at Dusk (Duke) There will be stars (Duke) Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Finzi) It was a lover and his lass (Finzi) Oh fair to see (Finzi) Rain (Floyd) Where Go the Boats? (Floyd) Sleep (Gurney) Money, O! (Head) The Astronomers (Hundley) Sweet Suffolk Owl (Hundley) How should I your true love know? (Quilter) Alleluia (Rorem) Ferry me across the water (Rorem) Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Foster/Rorem) Love (Rorem) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Rorem) The lads in their hundreds (Somervell) Bright is the ring of words (Vaughan Williams) Take, O take those lips away (Warlock) The Seal Man (Clarke) Down by the salley gardens (Clarke) These, My Ophelia (Chanler) Sephestia's Lullaby (Britten) The Salley Gardens (Britten) Nocturne (Britten) If it's ever spring again (Britten) At the mid hour of night (Britten) Love went a-riding (Bridge) Jupiter has seven moons (Bernstein) I hate music! (Bernstein) Greeting (Bernstein) Civet a Toute Vitesse (Rabbit at Top Speed) (Bernstein) Indiana Homecoming (Beeson) In the Public Gardens (Beeson) when faces called flowers float out of the ground (Argento) Spring is like a perhaps hand (Argento) Spring (Argento) Dirge (Argento) Spring Sorrow (Ireland) Waterbird (Hundley) Weep you no more (Quilter) My Life's Delight (Quilter) Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams)