Three Shakespeare settings: Elliott Carter: Tell me where is fancy bred (1938) William Schuman: Orpheus with his lute [acc. originally for piano] (1944) Andrew Imbrie: Tell me where is fancy bred [from incidental music for The merchant of Venice]
(with Richard Wagner, clarinet) (1964) Harold Blumenfeld: Rilke (1975) Lou Harrison: Serenade (guitar solo) (1951) Igor Stravinsky: Four songs (with Michael Debost, flute; Susan Jolles, harp) William Bland: Song for David (guitar solo) (1974) Barbara Kolb: The sentences (Pinsky) (1976) John Cage: The wonderful widow of eighteen springs (Joyce) (1942) Gregg Smith: Steps (O'Hara) (1975)
Rosalind Rees, alto. David Starobin, guitar
Total duration: ca.47 minutes
Recorded in 1976 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
This recording is currently available on CD (including works by other composers, excluding Bland's work):
VoxBox CDX 5145
LP released in 1978
