SONG-CYCLES

A COLLECTION OF SONGS

Words by John Betjeman. Music by Donald Swann. Baritone voice and piano.
Publisher: Chappell, London 1969
Chappell Archive sales. Tel 0208 8222 9210

1. The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
2. Margate 1949
3. Senex
4. A Subaltern's Love Song

RECORDINGS: EP

  

EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)

Words by C. Day Lewis. Music by Donald Swann.
Publisher: First Paige, Worcestershire 1992.
Set to music in the 1960s when Donald was preparing to work on CV Day Lewis's 'Requiem for the Living'. Originally a solo song, rewritten for Mezzo or Baritone solo with Chorus Addition.
Out of print; contact Leon Berger.

RECORDINGS: LP

  

THE POETIC IMAGE
A VICTORIAN SONG-CYCLE FOR MEDIUM VOICE & PIANO

Original publisher: Albert House Press 1991, then Thames.
Order: www.elkinmusic.co.uk

FOUR LYRICS FROM IN MEMORIAM (Tennyson)
1. There rolls the deep
2. Be near me when my light is low
3. Oh yet we trust that somehow
4. The wish
TWO POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
5. When I am dead, my dearest
6. A Better Resurrection
TWO POEMS BY OSCAR WILDE
7. The Harlot's House
8. The Ballad of Reading Gaol
POEM BY JOHN CLARE
9. An Invite to Eternity
TWO POEMS BY THOMAS HARDY
10. Thoughts of Phena
11. Before Life and After
 

THE ROAD GOES EVER ON

Poems by J.R.R.Tolkien, music by Donald Swann. A cycle of songs selected from THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, with Elvish calligraphy by Tolkien.
Original Publisher: George Allen & Unwin 1967. Now Harper Collins.

1. The Road Goes Ever On
2. Upon the Hearth the Fire is Red
3. In the Willow-meads of Tsarinan
4. In Western Lands
5. Namárïe
6. I Sit beside the Fire
7. Errantry
8. Bilbo's Last Song
9. Lúthien Tinúviel

Donald Swann's settings of J.R.R Tolkien have been republished by Harper Collins with a free CD of the original recording with William Elvin and Donald. 'Bilbo's Last Song' and 'Lúthien Tinúviel' are later additions to the original cycle of 7 songs. Both are now included in the published music and as bonus tracks on the CD. Foreword by Leon Berger.

Harper Collins ISBN 0-00-713655-2 price £20.
For publishing history and contents see SONG CYCLES
Can be ordered from UK bookstores and music stores.
US customers order through Amazon.ca and Amazon.co.uk

'Bilbo's Last Song' can also be purchased as a separate edition.
'Lúthien Tinúviel' can be found in THE SONGS OF DONALD SWANN: VOLUME 1.

RECORDINGS: CASSETTE
RECORDINGS: CD
RECORDINGS: CD

 

DONALD SWANN – LAST SONGS

Settings of William Blake, Edna St Vincent Millay and Emily Dickinson.
Publisher: Alfred Lengnick & Co, London 2001.

SIX SONGS TO POEMS BY WILLIAM BLAKE
1. The Garden of Love
2. Ah! Sun-Flower
3. The Sick Rose
4. The Angel
5. The Fly
6. The Proverb
FIVE COLOURISATIONS OF EMILY DICKINSON
7. Farewell
8. I Died for Beauty
9. I Felt a Funeral in my Brain
10. Dying
11. I Had No Time to Hate
TWO SONNETS BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
12. And Must I Then, Indeed, Pain, Live with You
13. Thou Famished Grave

Donald's late-flowering interest in Victorian poetry produced these exquisite settings in the last years, and indeed weeks, of his life. Foreword by Leon Berger, John Jansson & Alison Swann Smith. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co.
Website: www.alfredlengnick.co.uk
[Click on 'Sheet Music' – listed under 'Vocal']

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