Antheil: Songs (2CD)

George Antheil 1900-1959

Songs

CD1                                                                                                                                                                                52’49

FIVE SONGS

after Adelaide Crapsey (1919-20)

1. I. November Night 1’14
2. II. Triad 1’24
3. III. Suzanna and the Elders 0’36
4. IV. Fate Defied 1’35
5. V. The Warning 2’27

NINE SONGS OF EXPERIENCE (1946-48)

William Blake

6. I. The Garden of Love 3’17
7. II. A Poison Tree 3’13
8. III. The School Boy 3’24
9. IV. The Sick Rose 1’20
10. V. The Little Vagabond 2’24
11. VI. I Told My Love 3’18
12. VII. I Laid Me Down Upon a Bank 3’06
13. VIII. Infant sorrow 1’33
14. IX. The Tyger 2’40

15. Nightpiece (1930) 2’52

James Joyce

16. Schlafe, mein Kindlein (1914-15) 1’45

George Antheil

17. Ach, meines kleines Mädchen (1914-15) 1’05

George Antheil

18. Mother (1914-15) 1’13

George Antheil

SIX SONGS (1933)

19. I. The Vision of Love 3’04

George Russell

20. II. Down by the Sally Gardens 1’29

William Butler Yeats

21. III. The Sorrow of Love 1’52

William Butler Yeats

22. IV. Lightning 4’34

David Herbert Lawrence

23. V. I Hear an Army (fragment) 1’05

James Joyce

24. VI. An End Piece 2’08

Ford Madox Ford

CD2                                                                                                                                                                                50’46

1. Frankie and Johnny (1929) 3’20

American folk song

2. The Fable of the Redwoods (1952) 4’27

Charles McDougall

3. The Ballade of Jesse James (1954) 2’35

Unknown

TWO SONGS

on texts by Lewis Carroll (1924)

4. I. You Are Old, Father William 1’44
5. II. Turtle Soup 2’08

FÜNF LIEDER (1922)

German folk songs

6. I. Morgenrot 0’27
7. II. Auf Urlaub bin ich gegangen 0’32
8. III. Wenns Dibbe aber nu e Loch hat 0’22
9. IV. Was braucht ma auf an Bauerndorf 0’32
10. V. Lippe-Detmold, eine wunderschöne Stadt 2‘05

11. Bequest (c.1935)

Marion Shelton                                                                                                                                                              2’30

TWO ODES OF KEATS (1950)

John Keats

12. I. Ode to a Nightingale* 8’47
13. II. Ode on a Grecian Urn* 5’33

14. The Golden Day (1929) 1’50

Walter Lowenfels

15. Just One Moment, Annabelle! (1917-18) 2’09

George Antheil

Songs from A TONGUE OF SILVER (1956-57)

Michael Dyne

16. In a Dell 1’22
17. Lady Malmonay’s Witching Song 0’39
18. The Pastures of Heaven 2’08
19. Saint Colm 1’33

20. Sighs and Grones (1956) 5’53

George Herbert

Alice Lackner mezzo-soprano

Colin Griffiths-Brown speaker*

Philip Mayers piano