Summertime

Champs Hill Records

Recorded April 2000

 

Felicity Lott - soprano

Graham Johnson - piano

1. Gershwin: Summertime 
2. Barber: Sure on this Shining Night
3. Elgar: The Shepherd`s Song
 4. Fauré: Clair de Lune
5. Quilter: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
6. Schubert: Who is Sylvia
7. Arne: Where the Bee Sucks
8. Berlioz: L`ile inconnue
9. Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen
10. Fauré: Soir
11. Schumann: Der Nussbaum
12. Brahms: Meine Liebe ist grün
13. Lehmann: Ah Moon of my Delight
14. Fauré: Notre Amour
15. Berlioz: Villanelle
 		 16. Barber: The Monk and his Cat
17. Bridge: Go Not, Happy Day
18. Delius: To Daffodils
19. Vaughan Williams: Orpheus with his Lute
20. Ireland: The Trellis
21. Quilter: Love`s Philosophy
22. Wood: A Brown Bird Singing
23. The Lark in the Clear Air (trad. Irish)
24. Warlock: Sleep
25. Porter: The Tale of the Oyster
26. Bernstein: My House
27. Head: The Little Road to Bethlehem
28. Fraser-Simson: Vespers
29. Rutter: The Lord Bless You and Keep You

Summertime also has many of my favourite songs in English, French and German. We made the CD at a friend`s house, and the sessions were so relaxed, with no London traffic to cause endless retakes! It`s a real mix of beautiful songs of all kinds, on a summer theme. I chose songs I loved, from Gershwin to Christopher Robin…. FL