[ EMI Music / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 18 October 2005
Gramophone Awards 2002
Winner - Debut Recording
The bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu presents a wonderfully varied programme of English song and song in English based on the themes of childhood, nursery rhymes and fairy stories with a good measure of popular Shakespeare settings.
Roger Quilter: Four Shakespeare Songs Op.30
1 Who is Silvia?
2 When daffodils begin to peer
3 How should I your true love know?
4 Sigh no more, ladies
5 Samuel Barber: Dover beach (text: Matthew ARNOLD)
(baritone and string quartet) with Belcea Quartet
Benjamin Britten from Tit for Tat (Walter DE LA MARE)
6 A song of enchantment
7 Silver
8 Tit for tat
Richard Rodney Bennett from Songs before sleep
9 The mouse and the bumble bee
10 Baby, baby, naughty baby
11 As I walked by myself
John Ireland
12 Santa Chiara (Arthur SYMONS)
13 When lights go rolling around the sky (James Vila BLAKE)
George Butterworth: Love blows as the wind blows
(William Earnest HENLEY)
(baritone and string quartet) with Belcea Quartet
14 In the year that's come and gone
15 Life in her creaking shoes
16 Fill a glass with golden wine
17 On the way to Kew
Gerald Finzi: Let us garlands bring (William SHAKESPEARE)
18 Come away, death
19 Who is Silvia?
20 Fear no more the hear o' the sun
21 O mistress mine
22 It was a lover and his lass
William Bolcom from Cabaret Songs
23 Song of Black Max
24 George
25 Waitin'