Abstract
Recorded July and Sept. 1993 at the Campion Center, Weston, MA.
Nancy Armstrong, soprano ; D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano ; Frank Kelley, Paul Kirby, tenors ; Sanford Sylvan, baritone ; David Ripley, bass ; James Russell Smith, percussion ; Anthony Tommasini, piano.
Susie Asado (Stein) (1:41) -- Pigeons on the grass alas (Stein) (3:19) -- Praises and prayers: From "The canticle of the sun" (St Francis of Assisi, trans. M. Arnold) (5:08) ; My master hath a garden (1:30) ; Sung by the shepherds (Crashaw) (3:58) ; Before sleeping (1:55) ; Jerusalem my happy home (based on St. Augustine) (4:46) -- Five phrases from the Song of Solomon: Thou that dwellest in the gardens (0:40) ; Return, O Shulamite (1:00) ; O, my dove (0:52) ; I am my beloved's (0:47) ; By night (1:29) -- Mostly about love (Koch) : Love song (2:27) ; Down at the docks (2:09) ; Let's take a walk (1:27) ; A prayer to St. Catherine (2:40) -- Commentaire sur Saint Jérome (Marquis de Sade) (1:02) -- From "Sneden's Landing variations" (O'Hara) (1:50) -- Shakespeare songs: Was this fair face the cause? (2:14); Take, O, take those lips away (2:12) ; Tell me where is fancy bred (1:20) ; Sigh no more, ladies (2:08) -- Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France, reine de la Grande-Bretagne (Bossuet) (13:28) -- Capital capitals (Stein) (16:57).