1. Six Elizabethan Songs: Spring; 2. Six Elizabethan Songs: Sleep; 3. Six Elizabethan Songs: Winter; 4. Six Elizabethan Songs: Dirge;5. Six Elizabethan Songs: Diaphenia; 6. Six Elizabethan Songs: Hymn; 7. Three Songs of Innocence: Piping Down the Valleys Wild; 8. Three Songs of Innocence: The Shepherd; 9. Three Songs of Innocence: The Echoing Green;10. Songs About Spring: who knows if the moon's a balloon;11. Songs About Spring: spring is like a perhaps hand;12. Songs About Spring: in just - spring;13. Songs About Spring: in Spring comes;14. Songs About Spring: when faces called flowers float out of the ground;15. Nocturnes: The Moon;16. Nocturnes: Returning, We Hear the Larks;17. Nocturnes: River Roses;18. Nocturnes: The Owl;19. Nocturnes: Boat Song;20. For A Sleeping Child - Lullabies & Midnight Musings: Wynken, Blynken and Nod;21. For A Sleeping Child - Lullabies & Midnight Musings: All the Pretty Little Horses;22. For A Sleeping Child - Lullabies & Midnight Musings: The Mother's Song;23. For A Sleeping Child - Lullabies & Midnight Musings: Some Time.
Six Elizabethan songs (Spring (1:45) ; Sleep (3:15) ; Winter (1:47) ; Dirge (3:40) ; Diaphenia (2:14) ; Hymn (3:46)) / Dominick Argento -- Three songs of innocence (Piping down the valleys wild (2:09) ; The shepherd (2:15) ; The echoing green (2:32)) / Arnold Cooke -- Songs about spring (Who knows if the moon's a balloon? (2:14) ; Spring is like a perhaps hand (2:42) ; In just--spring (1:50) ; In spring comes (1:53) ; When faces called flowers float out of the ground (2:26)) / Dominick Argento -- Nocturnes (The moon (2:45) ; Returning, we hear the larks (2:29) ; River roses (3:01) ; The owl (1:06) ; Boat song (2:23)) / Arnold Cooke -- For a sleeping child : lullabies & midnight musings (Wynken, Blynken and Nod (7:37) ; All the pretty little horses (2:26) ; The mother's song (2:58) ; Some time (4:19)) / William Moylan.
Note
Song cycles. The 1st group with flute, oboe, violin, violoncello and harpsichord acc. (originally with piano); the 2nd group with clarinet and piano acc.; the remainder with piano acc.
Jean Danton, soprano ; with, variously: Thomas Stumpf, piano, harpsichord ; David Martins, clarinet ; Ellen Michaud-Martins, horn ; Christopher Krueger, flute ; Jane Harrison, oboe ; Anne Black, violin ; John Bumstead, violoncello ; C. Thomas Brooks, conductor.