Product Review

This series 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. Abendempfindung (Mozart) Asturiana (de Falla) Bella porta di rubini (Falconieri) Come again, sweet love (Dowland) Come away, death (Quilter) Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja from Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) Die Forelle (Schubert) Die beiden Grenadiere (Schumann) For the mountains shall depart from Elijah (Mendelssohn) Have You Seen But A White Lily Grow? (Anon. 17th c.) I Am a Pirate King from The Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan) I'll Sail Upon The Dog Star (Purcell) If Music Be The Food Of Love (Purcell) La mi sola, Laureola (Obradors) Le secret (Fauré) Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams) Lydia (Fauré) Non siate ritrosi (Così fan tutte) Now sleeps the crimson petal (Quilter) O del mio amato ben (Donaudy) O ma belle rebelle (Gounoud) Plaisir d'amour (Martini) Sea, The (MacDowell) Sonntag (Brahms) Vado ben spesso cangiando loco (Rosa) Vaga luna, che inargenti (Bellini) Vagabond, The (Vaughan Williams) Wandrers Nachtlied II (Schubert) Weep you no more (Quilter) Widmung (Schumann)