Kitty Whately, Julius Drake - Through the Centuries - Songs of Madeleine Dring (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. 6 Songs: No. 6, Love Is a Sickness
02. 6 Songs: No. 2, Echoes
03. 7 Songs: No. 7, Encouragements to a Lover
04. 6 Songs: No. 5, The Enchantment
05. 7 Songs: No. 6, Melisande
06. 6 Songs: No. 1, My True-Love Hath My Heart
07. Love and Time: No. 1, Sister, Awake
08. Love and Time: No. 2, Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love!
09. Love and Time: No. 3, I Feed a Flame Within
10. Love and Time: No. 4, The Reconcilement
11. 7 Songs: No. 4, Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
12. 7 Shakespeare Songs: No. 1, The Cuckoo
13. 7 Shakespeare Songs: No. 3, Take O Take Those Lips Away
14. 7 Shakespeare Songs: No. 2, It Was a Lover
15. 7 Songs: No. 3, The Faithless Lover
16. 4 Night Songs: No. 1, Holding the Night
17. 4 Night Songs: No. 2, Frosty Night
18. 4 Night Songs: No. 3, Through the Centuries
19. 4 Night Songs: No. 4, Separation
20. In the Still of the Night (From Rosalie) [Arr. for Voice & Piano by Madeleine Dring]

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’.

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