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Table of Contents:

• Four songs. Cara e dolce ; La speranza ; Difesa non ha ; Toglietemi la vita ancor / Alessandro Scarlatti
• Four songs from Orpheus Britannicus. 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 Dvorák.

Author/Creator:

Vickers, Jon

Contributors:

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 , arranger of music

Woitach, Richard , instrumentalist

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827

Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904

Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695

Scarlatti, Alessandro, 1660-1725

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958

Languages:

English
German
Italian
French

Language Notes:

Sung in English, German, and Italian.

Main Work:

Jon Vickers in recital: my song resounds [by Vickers, J.]

Included Works:

Songs [by Beethoven, L.v.] (Selections)

Zigeunermelodien [by Dvořák, A.] (Selections)

Samson [by Handel, G.F.] (Selections)

Vocal music [of Purcell, H.] (Selections) (arranged)

Works [of Scarlatti, A.] (Selections)

Songs [by Vaughan Williams, R.] (Selections)

Subjects:

Folk songs, English — Ireland

Operas — Excerpts

Song cycles

Songs (High voice) with piano

Folk songs, English

Operas

Ireland

Genres:

Sound recordings

Excerpts

Operas

Performers:

Jon Vickers, tenor ; Richard Woitach, piano.

General Notes:

Biographical notes and program notes in English and French, and texts of the works with English and French translations ([26] p.) linked to from resource.
Recorded in 1967.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

OCLC Numbers:

841414919

Other Control Numbers:

388898 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP388898/clmu