Tracklist

  • Digital Media 1
  • 1
    A Collection of Songs: The licorice fields at Pontefract
    Donald Swann
    2:06
  • 2
    A Collection of Songs: Margate 1940
    Donald Swann
    4:05
  • 3
    A Collection of Songs: Senex
    Donald Swann
    2:08
  • 4
    A Collection of Songs: A subaltern’s love song
    Donald Swann
    5:01
  • 5
    Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: Farewell
    Donald Swann
    1:23
  • 6
    Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I died for Beauty
    Donald Swann
    1:34
  • 7
    Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
    Donald Swann
    2:11
  • 8
    Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: Dying
    Donald Swann
    1:08
  • 9
    Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I had no time to Hate
    Donald Swann
    1:59
  • 10
    Two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
    Donald Swann
    2:13
  • 11
    Two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet
    Donald Swann
    1:30
  • 12
    Stopping by woods
    Donald Swann
    4:50
  • 13
    Two poems by Thomas Hardy: Thoughts of Phena
    Donald Swann
    2:59
  • 14
    Two poems by Thomas Hardy: Before life and after
    Donald Swann
    2:54
  • 15
    Four lyrics from In memoriam: Be near me when my light is low
    Donald Swann
    2:09
  • 16
    Four lyrics from In memoriam: Oh yet we trust that somehow good
    Donald Swann
    2:30
  • 17
    Four lyrics from In memoriam: The wish
    Donald Swann
    2:51
  • 18
    Four lyrics from In memoriam: There rolls the deep
    Donald Swann
    2:21
  • 19
    Two poems by Christina Rossetti: When I am dead, my dearest
    Donald Swann
    2:12
  • 20
    Two poems by Christina Rossetti: A better resurrection
    Donald Swann
    2:42
  • 21
    Dark rose of my heart
    Donald Swann
    3:57
  • 22
    An invite to eternity
    Donald Swann
    4:59
  • 23
    The harlot’s house
    Donald Swann
    4:12
  • Digital Media 2
  • 1
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Garden of Love
    Donald Swann
    1:34
  • 2
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: Ah! Sun-flower!
    Donald Swann
    1:25
  • 3
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: The sick Rose
    Donald Swann
    0:59
  • 4
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Angel
    Donald Swann
    2:19
  • 5
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Fly
    Donald Swann
    1:39
  • 6
    Six songs to poems by William Blake: Proverb
    Donald Swann
    0:59
  • 7
    Я вас любил (I loved you once)
    Donald Swann
    2:51
  • 8
    She is all harmony, all wonder
    Donald Swann
    2:33
  • 9
    Some people’s dreams
    Donald Swann
    3:42
  • 10
    Marguerite
    Donald Swann
    3:31
  • 11
    A red, red rose
    Donald Swann
    2:09
  • 12
    It was a lover, and his lass
    Donald Swann
    1:57
  • 13
    See, dearest, how the rose
    Donald Swann
    1:57
  • 14
    Arcades
    Donald Swann
    1:50
  • 15
    We’ll go no more a-roving
    Donald Swann
    1:14
  • 16
    Longing
    Donald Swann
    2:40
  • 17
    Oh, why are the roses so pale?
    Donald Swann
    1:57
  • 18
    Old songs of lost love
    Donald Swann
    5:11
  • 19
    In the mist
    Donald Swann
    2:42
  • 20
    Raiders’ dawn
    Donald Swann
    2:04
  • 21
    The youth of the heart
    Donald Swann
    4:26
  • 22
    He wishes for the cloths of heaven
    Donald Swann
    2:46
  • 23
    Bilbo’s last song (no. 9 of "The road goes ever on")
    Donald Swann
    4:29

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