Where the Music comes from American Songs
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Composer or Director: Richard Hundley, Celius (Hudson) Dougherty, Lee Hoiby, Arthur Farwell, Wendell (Morris) Logan, Paul Nordoff, John Ness Beck, Samuel Barber, Ned Rorem, Sven Lekberg, Henry Thacker Burleigh, Charles T(omlinson) Griffes
Label: Argo
Magazine Review Date: 12/1992
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 54
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 436 117-2ZH
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Where the music comes from |
Lee Hoiby, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Lee Hoiby, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| See how they love me |
Ned Rorem, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Ned Rorem, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| (5) Songs on Poems of Laurence Hope, Movement: Among the fuchias |
Henry Thacker Burleigh, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Henry Thacker Burleigh, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| (5) Songs on Poems of Laurence Hope, Movement: Till I wake |
Henry Thacker Burleigh, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Henry Thacker Burleigh, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| (5) Songs on Poems of Laurence Hope, Movement: Worth while |
Henry Thacker Burleigh, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Henry Thacker Burleigh, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| (5) Songs on Poems of Laurence Hope, Movement: The prayer |
Henry Thacker Burleigh, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Henry Thacker Burleigh, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| (3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Sleep now |
Samuel Barber, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Samuel Barber, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| (3) Songs, Movement: No. 3, O boundless, boundless evening |
Samuel Barber, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Samuel Barber, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| Embroidery for a faithless friend |
Paul Nordoff, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Paul Nordoff, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| Early in the morning |
Ned Rorem, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Ned Rorem, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| Wild nights! Wild nights! |
Arthur Farwell, Composer
Arthur Farwell, Composer Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Warren Jones, Piano |
| Song of devotion |
John Ness Beck, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano John Ness Beck, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| Always it's spring |
Lee Hoiby, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Lee Hoiby, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| O you to whom I often and silently come |
Ned Rorem, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Ned Rorem, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| Strings in the earth and air |
Richard Hundley, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Richard Hundley, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| Love in the dictionary |
Celius (Hudson) Dougherty, Composer
Celius (Hudson) Dougherty, Composer Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Warren Jones, Piano |
| Ice and fire |
Wendell (Morris) Logan, Composer
Wendell (Morris) Logan, Composer |
| (3) Poems, Movement: In a myrtle shade (wds. Blake) |
Charles T(omlinson) Griffes, Composer
Charles T(omlinson) Griffes, Composer Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Warren Jones, Piano |
| (The) spring and the fall |
Sven Lekberg, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Sven Lekberg, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
| Come Ready and See Me |
Richard Hundley, Composer
Cynthia Haymon, Soprano Richard Hundley, Composer Warren Jones, Piano |
Author: hfinch
Glyndebourne's Bess, Covent Garden's Liu and King's Coretta is at last allowed to be herself: this recital of American songs presents Haymon as Haymon in an unashamedly personal selection of music illustrating ''the many shades of love''. Cynthia Haymon's own short written introduction to this all too short recital sends warm words to her parents and to her husband. And singing seems merely an exuberant extension of speech in her equally warm, direct delivery of each song.
There is the Chamber Music of James Joyce, in a chaste setting by Samuel Barber and a meandering one by Richard Hundley: there is, by contrast, Emily Dickinson's lusty, gustyWild Nights! and Walt Whitman's veiled sensuality, caught nicely in Ned Rorem's setting of O you whom I often and silently come. A reverent hush descends on Haymon's voice through the walking prose-pace of John Ness Beck's setting of St Paul's words of brotherly love in his first letter to the Philippians (this was, after all, recorded in a Wesleyan chapel).
Haymon, and her astute accompanist, Warren Jones, is as relaxedly at home with the 1960s-style mode of the disc's title-song, with its devas, deer and living spirits, as she is with the turn-of-the-century salon passion of the Burleigh/Hope Among the fuchsias and Till I wake. Like Rorem himself, she gives the words room to live and air to breathe in the leisured balladry of See how they love me and Early in the morning. And her voice has fun following the erratic glint of an embroidery needle in Paul Nordoff's miniature.
The heights and depths of love may not be scaled here; but even the amateur mountaineer will enjoy Haymon's tenderly ironic performance of Celius Dougherty's tongue-in-cheek waltz, Love in the dictionary. Definition, after all, comes into its own when love's meaning is revealed as ''In some games, as tennis, nothing''.'
There is the Chamber Music of James Joyce, in a chaste setting by Samuel Barber and a meandering one by Richard Hundley: there is, by contrast, Emily Dickinson's lusty, gusty
Haymon, and her astute accompanist, Warren Jones, is as relaxedly at home with the 1960s-style mode of the disc's title-song, with its devas, deer and living spirits, as she is with the turn-of-the-century salon passion of the Burleigh/Hope Among the fuchsias and Till I wake. Like Rorem himself, she gives the words room to live and air to breathe in the leisured balladry of See how they love me and Early in the morning. And her voice has fun following the erratic glint of an embroidery needle in Paul Nordoff's miniature.
The heights and depths of love may not be scaled here; but even the amateur mountaineer will enjoy Haymon's tenderly ironic performance of Celius Dougherty's tongue-in-cheek waltz, Love in the dictionary. Definition, after all, comes into its own when love's meaning is revealed as ''In some games, as tennis, nothing''.'
Where the Music comes from American Songs
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