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Michael Halliwell - Woodforde-Finden: The Oriental Song-Cycles (2014)

Michael Halliwell - Woodforde-Finden: The Oriental Song-Cycles (2014)
  • Title: Woodforde-Finden: The Oriental Song-Cycles
  • Year Of Release: 2014
  • Label: Toccata Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
  • Total Time: 77:00 min
  • Total Size: 298 MB
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Tracklist:

1. No. 1. The Temple Bells
2. No. 2. Less Than the Dust
3. No. 3. Kashmiri Song
4. No. 4. 'Till I Wake
5. No. 1. Far across the desert sands -
6. No. 2. Where the Abana flows -
7. No. 3. Beloved, in your absence -
8. No. 4. How many a lonely caravan
9. No. 5. If in the great bazaars -
10. No. 6. Allah be with us
11. No. 1. Jhelum Boat Song
12. No. 2. The song of the Bride
13. No. 3. Will the red sun never set-
14. No. 4. Ashoo at her Lattice
15. No. 5. Only a Rose
16. No. 6. Kingfisher Blue
17. No. 1. Beside the lonely Nile -
18. No. 2. Within the Sphinx's solemn shade
19. No. 3. Pomegranate is your mouth
20. No. 4. I envy every circlet
21. No. 5. I wakened when the moon
22. No. 1. Stars of the Desert
23. No. 2. You are all that is lovely
24. No. 3. The rice was under water
25. No. 4. Fate
26. No. 1. The Myrtles of Damascus
27. No. 2. After Drought
28. No. 3. At Nightfall
29. No. 4. I did not know
30. No. 5. L'envoi


Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860-1919) wrote a number of 'oriental' song-cycles, one of which, the Four Indian Love Lyrics of 1902, contained the 'Kashmiri Song' — beginning 'Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar' — that became a runaway success in its own day. These ballads have long since fallen from favour, but they contain plenty of honest sentiment, good tunes and splashes of local colour — and their hints of inter-racial love and lesbian romance must have given a real frisson to their contemporary audiences.

Michael Halliwell, baritone
David Miller, piano


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