Various: My Name Is Barbara (Onyx Classics Audio CD)

Onyx Classics Barbara Bonney/Martineau CD

Bonney, Barbara
My Name is Barbara


Roger Quilter
Seven Elizabethan Lyrics (1908)
Charles T Griffes
Three Poems of Fiona Macleod (1918)
Aaron Copland
Four Early Songs (1918-1922)
Benjamin Britten
On This Island (1938)
Leonard Bernstein
I Hate Music! (1943)
Samuel Barber
Four Songs Op. 13 (1940)

BARBARA BONNEY - soprano
MALCOLM MARTINEAU - piano

Total timing: 62.04

Catalogue No: ONYX4003

Uniquely fascinating programme compares and contrasts great songwriters from both sides of the Atlantic during the early-mid 20th century, mixing the well-known with the extremely unusual, like the individual and impressionistic world of Charles Griffes' songs after the poems of Fiona Macleod.

It's a concept ideally suited to Bonney who, while American, has lived in London for many years and has recorded outstandingly successful English (Fairest Isle) and American (Songs with Andre Previn) discs for Decca.