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Title: Songs by Samuel Barber
Ensemble: The Aronowitz Ensemble
Soloist(s): Gerard Finley
Label Name: Hyperion
Catalogue Number: CDA 67528
Release Date: 01 December 2007

Contents

Work Title Composer
Bessie Bobtail: High Voice, op.2 no.3 Samuel Barber
Dover Beach Samuel Barber
Hermit Songs: High Voice Samuel Barber
Three Songs: High Voice, op.45 Samuel Barber

Reviews

  • Samuel Barber was a singer as well as a composer, and his beautifully wrought songs represent one of the most durable segments of his output. This programme reflects his predominantly European sensibilities: the Hermit Songs on texts from the margins of Irish medieval manuscripts, the Opus 10 group to poems of James Joyce, the Melodies passageres to French poems by Rilke, and Dover Beach,, on one of the great poems of Victorian England...
    Anthony Burton, BBC Music Magazine, 01 December 2007

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