In praise of Woman (English women composers)

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CAROLINE NORTON / MAUDE VALERIE WHITE / LIZA LEHMANN / and others
In praise of Woman (English women composers)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)

[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 13 July 2004

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PICK OF THE YEAR, CD REVIEW
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE

'Another delightful disc. They couldn't have more perceptive or loving or enthusiastic interpreters... unreservedly recommended'
- Gramophone

'An impressive and delightful disc... his unusual and appealing repertoire makes an exceptionally appealing recital'
- BBC Music Magazine

Tracks:

My Mother
MISS LH OF LIVERPOOL Ann Taylor [3'23]

Juanita
CAROLINE NORTON (1808-1877) Caroline Norton [2'29]

Orpheus
VIRGINIA GABRIEL (1825-1877) William Shakespeare [3'42]

In the gloaming
ANNIE FORTESCUE HARRISON (1851-1944) Meta Orred [2'32]

The Throstle
MAUDE VALÉRIE WHITE (1855-1937) Alfred, Lord Tennyson [2'26]

My soul is an enchanted boat
MAUDE VALÉRIE WHITE (1855-1937) Percy Shelley [5'50]

The Devout Lover
MAUDE VALÉRIE WHITE (1855-1937) Walter Pollock [3'45]

So we'll go no more a-roving
MAUDE VALÉRIE WHITE (1855-1937) George, Lord Byron [4'22]

Slave Song
TERESA DEL RIEGO (c1876-1968) E Nesbit [2'45]

A widow bird sate mourning
LIZA LEHMANN (1862-1918) Percy Shelley [1'41]

Ah, moon of my delight
LIZA LEHMANN (1862-1918) Omar Khayyám/Edward Fitzgerald [4'34]

The Lily of a Day
LIZA LEHMANN (1862-1918) Ben Jonson [1'59]

Thoughts have wings
LEHMANN (1862-1918) Frances Gostling [2'01]

Henry King
LIZA LEHMANN (1862-1918) Hilaire Belloc [2'52]

Charles Augustus Fortescue
LIZA LEHMANN (1862-1918) Hilaire Belloc [3'12]

Till I wake
AMY WOODFORDE-FINDEN (1860-1919) Laurence Hope (Adela Nicolson) [2'44]

Kashmiri Song ('Pale hands I loved')
AMY WOODFORDE-FINDEN (1860-1919) Hope [3'05]

Possession
ETHEL SMYTH (1858-1944) Ethel Carnie [5'05]

The Aspidistra
REBECCA CLARKE (1886-1979) Claude Flight [1'41]

Shy One
REBECCA CLARKE (1886-1979) W B Yeats [1'14]

In Praise of Woman
ELIZABETH POSTON (1905-1987) Anonymous [1'39]

As I walked out one evening
ELISABETH LUTYENS (1906-1983) W H Auden [3'46]

Have you seen but a bright lily grow?
ELIZABETH MACONCHY (1907-1994) Ben Jonson [1'27]

Meditation for his Mistress
ELIZABETH MACONCHY (1907-1994) Robert Herrick [2'25]

Crabbed age and youth
MADELEINE DRING (1923-1977) William Shakespeare [1'40]

To the Virgins, to make much of Time
MADELEINE DRING (1923-1977) Robert Herrick [1'31]

Epitaph
PHYLLIS TATE (1911-1987) Walter Raleigh [2'36]