Barber: Complete Songs (3CD)

Samuel Barber 1910-1981

Complete Songs

CD1                                                                                                                                                                                42’26

Songs Published during the Composer’s lifetime

3 Songs Op.2 *

1. The Daisies (1927) 1’10
2. With rue my heart is laden (1927) 1’08
3. Bessie Bobtail (1934) 2’53

3 Songs Op.10 *

4. Rain has fallen (1935) 2’22
5. Sleep now (1935) 3’04
6. I hear an army (1936) 2’41

4 Songs Op.13 *

7. a Nun Takes the Veil (1937) 1’56
8. The Secrets of the Old (1938) 1’16
9. Sure on this shining night (1938) 2’45
10. Nocturne (1940) # 3’39

2 Songs Op.18 #

11. The queen’s face on the summery coin (1942) 2’50
12. Monks and Raisins (1943) 1’24
13. Nuvoletta Op.25 (1947) # 5’58

Mélodies passagères Op.27

14. Puisque tout passe (1951) 1’23
15. Un ygnet (1951) 2’20
16. Tombeau dans un parc (1951) 1’57
17. Le clocher chante (1950) 1’27
18. Départ (1950) 1’55

CD2                                                                                                                                                                                37’24

Hermit Songs Op.29 #

1. At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory (1952) 1’31
2. Church Bell at Night (1952) 0’48
3. St. Ita’s Vision (1953) 3’14
4. The Heavenly Banquet (1952) 1’22
5. The Crucifixion (1952) 2’08
6. Sea-Snatch (1953) 0’42
7. Promiscuity (1953) 1’03
8. The Monk and His Cat (1953) 2’20
9. The Praises of God (1953) 1’00
10. The Desire for Hermitage (1953) 3’29

Despite and Still Op.41 (1968) #

11. A Last Song 2’15
12. My Lizard (Whish for a Young Love) 1’03
13. In the Wilderness 3’27
14. Solitary Hotel 2’44
15. Despite and Still 1’42

3 Songs Op.45 (1972) *

16. Now have I fed and eaten up the Rose 2’08
17. A Green Lowland of Pianos 2’33
18. O boundless, boundless evening 3’42

CD3                                                                                                                                                                                60’15

Songs published posthumously

2 Poems of the Wind (1924) #

1. Little Children of the Wind 1’17
2. Longing 2’16

2 Songs of Youth (1925) #

3. Invocation to Youth 1’27
4. I never thought that youth would go 1’21

5. Fantasy in Purple (1925) * 2’24
6. Music, when soft voices die (1925) # 1’24
7. La nuit (1925) 2’38
8. A Slumber Song of the Madonna (1925) # 2’22

3 Songs: The Words from Old England *

9. Lady, When I Behold the Roses (1925) 1’18
10. An Earnest Suit to His Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him (1926) 2’35
11. Hey nanny no! (1926) 1’03

12. Ask me to rest (1926) # 2’10
13. Au claire de la lune (1926) 2’17
14. Man (1926) # 3’43
15. Thy Love (1926) # 1’41
16. Watchers (1926) # 4’04
17. There’s nae lark (1927) * 1’49
18. Mother, I cannot mind my wheel (1927) # 1’05
19. Love at the Door (1934) * 1’19
20. Serenader (1934) * 1’59
21. Love’s Caution (1935) * 3’22
22. Night Wanderers (1935) * 2’19
23. Of that so sweet imprisonment (1935) * 1’51
24. Peace (1935) * 2’39
25. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1935) * 2’19
26. Strings in the earth and air (1935) * 1’57
27. Beggar’s Song (1936) * 1’58
28. In the dark pinewood (1937) * 1’28
29. Who carries corn and crown (1942) # 1’12

# Leilah Dione Ezra soprano

Elisabetta Lombardi mezzo-soprano

* Mauro Borgioni baritone

Filippo Farinelli piano