Christine Schäfer, Eric Schneider - Henry Purcell: Songs / George Crumb: Apparition (2007)

Tracklist:

Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
George Crumb (1929– )
[With spoken introductions from the sonnets of William Shakespeare]

Henry Purcell
[1 So long as men can breathe]
2 Music for a while
3 If music be the food of love [First setting, 1692]
4 Ah! how sweet it is to love
[5 Do I envy those jacks, that nimble leap]
6 An Epithalamium (Thrice happy lovers)
[7 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?]
8 Sweeter than roses

George Crumb
9 Three Early Songs: I Night

Henry Purcell
[10 They live unwoo’d, and unrespected fade]
11 From rosy bow’rs
[12 And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth]
13 Not all my torments

George Crumb
14 Three Early Songs: II Let it be forgotten

Henry Purcell
15 Celebrate this Festival! (Crown the altar)
[16 No longer mourn for me when I am dead]

George Crumb
17 Three Early Songs: III Wind Elegy

Henry Purcell
18 ******
19 Thy hand, Belinda…When I am laid in earth (Dido’s Lament)

George Crumb
20-28 Apparition
Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for soprano and amplified piano

Performers:
Christine Schäfer - soprano
Eric Schneider - piano