Description
Song (An Collins)
A Song (Charlotte Lennox)
A Birthday (Christina Rossetti). – also available transposed for soprano
Love from the North (Christina Rossetti)
These songs are intended to fill a gap in the repertoire for female singers. So often female recitalists are forced to sing men’s songs (addressed to female lovers!) or, worse, women’s songs with texts written by men (as Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben). Three of these songs are love songs written by women from the woman’s point of view, including a major poem by Christina Rossetti. The setting of her better-known poem ‘A Birthday’, written in 2002 for Catherine Bass, is a later addition to this set. First performed by Alison Kettlewell (mezzo-soprano) and John Byrt at East Devon College, Tiverton.
16pp + Colour Laminated cover A4
ISMN M 708040 33 0
