Dring: Songs
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MADELEINE DRING
Dring: Songs
Kitty Whately (mezzo), Julius Drake (piano)
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 20 March 2026
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English mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately presents an album of songs by Madeleine Dring. Born in 1923 to a theatrical family, Dring was admitted to the Royal College of Music at the age of nine. She went on to study composition with Herbert Howells, also taking lessons from Gordon Jacob and Ralph Vaughan Williams. She made her career in the theatre, earning a reputation for being able to create catchy numbers at short notice. Sadly, she died at the early age of fifty-three, of a brain aneurysm.
The disparate nature of her musical legacy is often attributed to the piecemeal nature of her career; consequently, resurgence of interest in her work has lagged behind that of her contemporaries Elizabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, Grace Williams, and Ruth Gipps. Kitty Whately and Julius Drake have chosen widely from among her output, and end with Dring's version of Cole Porter's 'In the Still of the Night'.
Tracks:
1. Love is a sickness (date uncertain)
2. Echoes (date uncertain)
3. Encouragements to a Lover (date uncertain)
4. The Enchantment (date uncertain)
5. Melisande (date uncertain)
6. My true-love hath my heart (1944)
Love and Time (1970s)
7. Sister, awake.
8. Ah, how sweet it is to love!
9. I feed a flame within.
10.The Reconcilement.
11. Weep you no more, sad fountains (date uncertain)
From Seven Shakespeare Songs (published 1992)
12.The Cuckoo. Allegretto2:07Audio Player
13.Take O take those lips away.
14.It was a lover.
15.The Faithless Lover (date uncertain)
Four Night Songs (1976)
16.Holding the Night. Calmo
17.Frosty Night.
18.Through the Centuries.
19.Separation (completed by Roger Lord).
20. In the Still of the Night (date uncertain)
