Onyx CDs by Christine Schaefer

APPARITION
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
George Crumb (1929 - )

[With spoken introductions from the sonnets of William Shakespeare]

Henry Purcell

[1. So long as men can breathe                   0.54]
2 Music for a while                                 3.41
3 If music be the food of love [1692]       1.31
4 Ah how sweet it is to love                      1.35
[5: Do I envy those Jacks                        0.28]
6 An Epithalamium (Thrice happy lovers)   2.52
[7. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day   0.43]
8 Sweeter than Roses                             4.16

George Crumb

9. Three Early Songs: I Night 2.56

Henry Purcell

[10 They live unwooed                               0.17]
11 From rosy bow’rs                               7.08
[12 And so of youth                                   0.48]
13 Not all my torments                           3.01

George Crumb
14 Three Early Songs II Let it be forgotten 3.17

Henry Purcell
15 Crown the altar 3.19

[16 No longer mourn for me when I am dead 0.44]

George Crumb
17 Three Early Songs III Wind Elegy           2.14

Henry Purcell
[18       ******                                         0.46]
19 Dido’s Lament                                      4.21

George Crumb
Apparition

20 I The Night in Silence under Many a Star 3.23
21 Vocalise 1: Summer Sounds                  1.07
22  II When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d  1.25
23  III Dark Mother Always Gliding Near with Soft Feet  2.53
24  Vocalise 2: Invocation                          1.03
25  IV Approach Strong Deliveress!              2.14
26  Vocalise 3: Death Carol (“Song of the Nightbird”)  0.41
27  V Come Lovely and Soothing Death        7.39
28. VI The Night in Silence under Many a Star 4.24

Christine Schäfer soprano/Sopran
Eric Schneider piano/Klavier