Four songs. Cara e dolce ; La speranza ; Difesa non ha ; Toglietemi la vita ancor / Alessandro Scarlatti -- Four songs. Mad Bess ; If music be the food of love ; There's not a swain of the plain ; Man is for the woman made / Henry Purcell ; realized by Benjamin Britten -- Samson. Recit: Why by an angel ; Recit: Oh, loss of sight ; Aria: Total eclipse / George Frederick Handel -- An die ferne Geliebte : op. 98. Auf dem Hügel sitz' ich, spähend ; Wo die Berge so blau ; Leichte Segler in den Höhen ; Diese Wolken in den Höhen ; Es kehret der Maien, es blühet die Au ; Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Songs of travel. Bright is the ring of words ; Linden Lea ; Hugh the drover. Hugh's song of the road / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Traditional : Three Irish folk songs. Must I go bound ; Down by the Salley Gardens ; Ballynure ballad / arr. Herbert Hughs -- Gypsy melodies : op. 55. My song resounds ; Silent woods ; Songs my mother taught me ; Garbed in flowing linen ; The heights of Tatra / Antonin Dvořák.
Note
Chiefly songs and song cycles for tenor and piano; some selections excerpted from larger works with the original orchestral acc. arr. for piano.
Event (note)
Recorded at the Student Union Theatre of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, as part of the 1974 CBC Alberta Festival of Music.
Language (note)
Sung in Italian, English and German; the last work originally in German, sung in English.
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Author
Vickers, Jon.
Title
Jon Vickers in recital [electronic resource].
Imprint
Toronto, Ont. : CBC Records = Les disques SRC, p2001.
Series
Perspective
Perspective (CBC Records (Firm))
Performer
Jon Vickers, tenor ; Richard Woitach, piano.
Event
Recorded at the Student Union Theatre of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, as part of the 1974 CBC Alberta Festival of Music.
Language
Sung in Italian, English and German; the last work originally in German, sung in English.