Songs by Donald Swann

Album by Donald Swann & Felicity Lott & Kathryn Rudge & John Mark Ainsley & Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn

First released: 30th June 2017

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Garden of Love
    1:34
  2. 2.
    A Collection of Songs: The licorice fields at Pontefract
    2:06
  3. 3.
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: Ah! Sun-flower!
    1:25
  4. 4.
    A Collection of Songs: Margate 1940
    4:05
  5. 5.
    A Collection of Songs: Senex
    2:08
  6. 6.
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: The sick Rose
    0:59
  7. 7.
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Angel
    2:19
  8. 8.
    A Collection of Songs: A subaltern’s love song
    5:01
  9. 9.
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Fly
    1:39
  10. 10.
    Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: Farewell
    1:23
  11. 11.
    Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I died for Beauty
    1:34
  12. 12.
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: Proverb
    0:59
  13. 13.
    Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
    2:11
  14. 14.
    Я вас любил (I loved you once)
    2:51
  15. 15.
    Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: Dying
    1:08
  16. 16.
    She is all harmony, all wonder
    2:33
  17. 17.
    Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I had no time to Hate
    1:59
  18. 18.
    Some people’s dreams
    3:42
  19. 19.
    Two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
    2:13
  20. 20.
    Marguerite
    3:31
  21. 21.
    A red, red rose
    2:09
  22. 22.
    Two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet
    1:30
  23. 23.
    Stopping by woods
    4:50
  24. 24.
    It was a lover, and his lass
    1:57
  25. 25.
    Two poems by Thomas Hardy: Thoughts of Phena
    2:59
  26. 26.
    See, dearest, how the rose
    1:57
  27. 27.
    Arcades
    1:50
  28. 28.
    Two poems by Thomas Hardy: Before life and after
    2:54
  29. 29.
    Four lyrics from In memoriam: Be near me when my light is low
    2:09
  30. 30.
    We’ll go no more a-roving
    1:14
  31. 31.
    Longing
    2:40
  32. 32.
    Four lyrics from In memoriam: Oh yet we trust that somehow good
    2:30
  33. 33.
    Four lyrics from In memoriam: The wish
    2:51
  34. 34.
    Oh, why are the roses so pale?
    1:57
  35. 35.
    Four lyrics from In memoriam: There rolls the deep
    2:21
  36. 36.
    Old songs of lost love
    5:11
  37. 37.
    In the mist
    2:42
  38. 38.
    Two poems by Christina Rossetti: When I am dead, my dearest
    2:12
  39. 39.
    Two poems by Christina Rossetti: A better resurrection
    2:42
  40. 40.
    Raiders’ dawn
    2:04
  41. 41.
    The youth of the heart
    4:26
  42. 42.
    Dark rose of my heart
    3:57
  43. 43.
    An invite to eternity
    4:59
  44. 44.
    He wishes for the cloths of heaven
    2:46
  45. 45.
    The harlot’s house
    4:12
  46. 46.
    Bilbo’s last song (no. 9 of "The road goes ever on")
    4:29

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