Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs 1 (Hyperion Audio CD)

Hyperion Stanford CD Stanford: Songs 1

Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

CDA67123

Recording details: January 1999
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: March 2000
Total duration: 75 minutes 16 seconds

Track listing CD1 1
La belle dame sans merci (Stanford) 'O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms' 5:25

The Spanish Gypsy, Op 1 (Stanford)
2 No 1: Blue wings 'Warm whisp'ring through the slender olive trees' 2:18
3 No 2: Day is dying 2:44
4 No 3: Sweet springtime 'It was in the prime of the sweet springtime' 1:12
5 No 4: Spring comes hither 2:16
6 No 5: Came a pretty maid 1:14
7 No 6: The world is great 2:18
8 No 7: Bright, o bright Fedalma 'Maiden crowned with glossy blackness' 2:09
9 No 8: The radiant dark 'Should I long that dark were fair?' 3:30
10
Sterne mit den gold'nen Füsschen, Op 4 No 1 (Stanford) 2:27
11
Dass du mich liebst, Op 4 No 3 (Stanford) 2:07
12
Frühling, Op 4 No 4 (Stanford) 'Die Wellen blinken und fliessen dahin' 2:25
13
Der Schmetterling is in die Rose verliebt, Op 4 No 6 (Stanford) 1:26
14
Ich lieb' eine Blume, Op 7 No 1 (Stanford) 1:21
15
Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert, Op 7 No 2 (Stanford) 1:52
16
Ich halte ihr die Augen zu, Op 7 No 5 (Stanford) 2:22
17
Schlummerlied, Op 7 No 6 (Stanford) 'Püppchen klein, püppchen mein' 1:40
18
My love's an arbutus (Stanford) 2:14
19
The little red lark (Stanford) 'Oh swan of slenderness, dove of tenderness' 1:46

Songs of Erin, Op 76 (Stanford)
20 : Trottin' to the fair 1:24
21
The Tomb (Stanford) 'When, cruel fair one, I am slain' 4:43
22
Heraclitus, Op 110, No 4 (Stanford) 'They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead' 2:19

The Glen of Antrim, Op 174 (Stanford)
23 No 1: Denny's daughter 2:49
24 No 2: The sailor man 'Sure a terrible time I was out o' the way' 1:49
25 No 3: Lookin' back 'Wather's o' Moyle an' the white gulls flyin'' 4:04
26 No 4: At sea ''Tis the long blue head o' Garron from the sea' 2:59
27 No 5: I mind the day 2:05
28 No 6: The boy from Ballytearim 'he was born in Ballytearim where there's little work to do' 2:39

A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster, Op 140 (Stanford)
29 No 1: A soft day 'A soft day, thank God!' 2:13
30 No 2: The bold unbiddable child 'Now what is he after below in the street' 0:50
31 No 3: Irish skies 'In London here the streets are grey, and grey the sky above' 4:36