Product Review

(Vocal Collection). This series of five book/online audio access packs is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen opera arias, an oratorio aria, and an operetta aria by Gilbert & Sullivan. Each book includes a unique code for access to professionally-recorded pronunciation lessons and piano accompaniments. Contents: ARNE: When daisies pied * DOWLAND: Come again, sweet love * Flow my tears * Weep you no more, sad fountains * PURCELL: If music be the food of love * Nymphs and Shepherds * QUILTER: Fair House of Joy * It was a lover and his lass * Love's Philosophy * VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silent Noon * BIZET: Ouvre ton coeur * FAURE: Clair de lune * Mandoline * MARTINI: Plaisir d'amour * BRAHMS: Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer * MOZART: Als Luise die Briefe ihres * Ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte * SCHUBERT: An die Nachtigall * SCHUMANN: Du Ring an meinem Finger * RICHARD STRAUSS: Zueignung * BELLINI: Dolente immagine di Fille mia * DONAUDY: O del mio amato ben * SCARLATTI: Cara e dolce * STRADELLA: Se nel ben sempre incostante * DE FALLA: El pano moruno * GRANADOS: La maja dolorosa (2) * MOZART: Voi che sapete * GLUCK: Che faro senza Euridice * SULLIVAN: When Frederic Was a Little Lad * VIVALDI: Qui sedes ad dextram Patris