BIS-CD-949
Total Time: 45'27 – Release: Sep 1998

EAN 7318590009499


Romance - Songs for counter-tenor and orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
1. Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op.34 No.2 (Text: Heinrich Heine) (On Wings of Song) 3'24

Georg Friedrich Händel
2. Lascia ch´io pianga from 'Rinaldo' (Let me Lament) 3'45

3. Ombra mai fu from 'Searse' (Text: Silvio Stampiglia) (Never was Shade) 2'56

Richard Strauss
4. Morgen, Op.27 No.4 (Text: John Henry Mackay) (Morning) 3'42

5. Allerseelen, Op.10 No.8 (Text: Hermann von Glim) (All Souls) 3'06

Charles Gounod
6. Romance from 'Faust' (Text: Jules Barbier) 2'52

7. La danse des Troyennes Virginales from 'Faust' (Dance of Trojan Virgins) 2'36

Charles Gounod, Johann Sebastian Bach
8. Ave Maria 2'39

Erik Satie
9. Je te veux (Text: Henri Pacory) (I want you) 3'34

Antonín Dvorák
10. Kdy mne stará matka zpivat, Op.55 No.4 (Text: Adoof Heyduk) (Songs my Mother taught me) 2'01

Edvard Grieg
11. Solveigs sang from 'Peer Gynt', Op.23 (Text: Henrik Ibsen) (Solveig´s Song) 5'11

Sergei Rachmaninov
12. Vocalise, Op.34 No.14 3'33

Traditional
13. Greensleeves 5'02

Yoshikazu Mera, counter-tenor
Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, orchestra
Shigeo Genda, conductor