Apparition: C.Schafer(S)E.Schneider(P)+Purcell

APPARITION
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 0.54]
2 Music for a while 3.41
3 If music be the food of love [1692] 1.31
4 Ah how sweet it is to love 1.35
[5: Do I envy those Jacks 0.28]
6 An Epithalamium (Thrice happy lovers) 2.52
[7. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day 0.43]
8 Sweeter than Roses 4.16

George Crumb
9. Three Early Songs: I Night 2.56

Henry Purcell

[10 They live unwooed 0.17]
11 From rosy bow’rs 7.08
[12 And so of youth 0.48]
13 Not all my torments 3.01

George Crumb
14 Three Early Songs II Let it be forgotten 3.17

Henry Purcell
15 Crown the altar 3.19
[16 No longer mourn for me when I am dead 0.44]

George Crumb
17 Three Early Songs III Wind Elegy 2.14

Henry Purcell
[18 ****** 0.46]
19 Dido’s Lament 4.21

George Crumb
Apparition
20 I The Night in Silence under Many a Star 3.23
21 Vocalise 1: Summer Sounds 1.07
22 II When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d 1.25
23 III Dark Mother Always Gliding Near with Soft Feet 2.53
24 Vocalise 2: Invocation 1.03
25 IV Approach Strong Deliveress! 2.14
26 Vocalise 3: Death Carol (“Song of the Nightbird”) 0.41
27 V Come Lovely and Soothing Death 7.39
28. VI The Night in Silence under Many a Star 4.24

Christine Schäfer soprano/Sopran
Eric Schneider piano/Klavier