If on a winter's night--
(2009)

Music CD

Call Numbers:
CD/HOLIDAY/STING

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Holiday CDs CD/HOLIDAY/STING Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Deutsche Grammophon : Cherry Tree Records, [2009]
℗2009
DESCRIPTION

1 audio disc : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
6313206959 B0013329-02 GH, 9786313206957, 00602527017433, 602527017433
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Traditional, popular, and art songs, arranged or composed for voice and instrumental ensemble; some selections from operas

Compact disc

Program notes and lyrics ([24] p. : ill. (some col.)) inserted in container

Sting, vocals, guitar, percussion ; with additional assisting musicians

Recorded at Steerpike Studios, Il Palagio, Italy; The Source, Malibu, Calif.; Clinton Recording Studios, Manhattan Center Studios, and SevenSeas Studios, New York, N.Y

Sung in English

CONTENTS
Gabriel's message / trad. (2:32) -- Soul cake / music and lyrics by Paul Stookey, Tracey Batteast, and Elena Mezzetti (3:26) -- There is no rose of such virtue / anon. (4:01) -- Snow it melts the sooner / trad. (3:42) -- Christmas at sea / poem by Robert Louis Stevenson ; music by Sting and Mary Macmaster (4:34) -- Lo, how a rose e'er blooming / music by Michael Praetorius ; English translation by Theodore Baker (2:40) -- Cold song / music by Henry Purcell ; lyrics by John Dryden (3:14) -- Burning babe / music by Chris Wood ; lyrics by Robert Southwell (2:46) -- Now winter comes slowly / music by Henry Purcell ; lyrics by Thomas Betterton (3:04) -- Hounds of winter / music and lyrics by Sting (5:45) -- Balulalow / music by Peter Warlock ; lyrics trad. (3:08) -- Cherry tree carol / trad. (3:10) -- Lullaby for an anxious child / music and lyrics by Sting and Dominic Miller (2:52) -- Hurdy-gurdy man / music by Franz Schubert ; poem by Wilhelm Müller ; English adaptation by Sting (2:48) -- You only cross my mind in winter / music by J.S. Bach ; lyrics by Sting (2:36)

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