Helene Williams Sings Songs of Love
BY MEMBERS OF THE LONG ISLAND COMPOSERS ALLIANCE

		Leonard Lehrman, piano Price: $14.00 Catalog Number: CPS-8647 Audio Format: Stereo, DDD Playing Time: 58:57 Release Date: 1998
Cover Photo: Uschi Karnilova Cover Artwork: J. Sabatino Hills

 

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		Leonard Lehrman
	1.	Love's Secret (1:36)
	2.	The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (3:20)
	3.	The Definition of Love (1:52)
	4.	Tell, Me, What Is Love? (2:57)
	5.	In der Fremd (1:29)
		Leonard Lehrman
		Two Christina Rossetti Songs
	6.	When I Am Dead, My Dearest (1:39)
	7.	Remember Me When I Am Gone Away (2:17)
		Albert Tepper
		Three Shakespeare Songs
	8.	O mistress mine (1:02)     Listen: RealAudio or MP3
	9.	Who is Sylvia (1:52)     Listen: RealAudio or MP3
	10.	Where the bee sucks (1:05)     Listen: RealAudio or MP3
		Jeanne Singer
	11-14.	A Cycle of Love (8:42)
		Leonard Lehrman
	15-21.	An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle (5:38)
		Adele Berk
	22-24.	Three Songs (5:04)
		Leonard Lehrman
	25-31.	An Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Love Song Cycle (14:07)
		Elie Siegmeister
	32-33.	Two Songs (3:36)
		Mira J. Spektor
	34.	Call Me (2:41)

 

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Reviews

New Music Connoisseur - Volume 8, Number 2 - by Alex Skovron

I found this recording full of colour and rich in musical thought. There were many highlights for me. The exuberant opening bars of Leonard Lehrman's Marlowe setting in Five Love Songs still echo in my mind whenever I think of the words (even as I write this). The second of the two Rossetti love songs is an enjoyable example of the same composer's Sonnetinas. Albert Tepper's "Who is Sylvia" makes for a fascinating comparison with Schubert's version, and "Ariel's Song" provides a delightful contrast. The splendid Jeanne Singer cycle struck me as "symphonic," and presents such a variety of mood and feeling, as does Lehrman's Edith Segal cycle, with its quick-change miniatures. Among the Adele Berk songs, I found "Sigh No More, Ladies" particularly arresting for its vigour and its modal quality. I much admired, too, Lehrman's settings of the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn poems. (I must confess I didn't dmire all of her words, though the opening poem is rather beautiful; but the settings and Helene Williams' expressive skills transcended the less understated or oversentimentalized lines -- and I liked the way the vivid fourth poem is partially repeated.) Elie Siegmeister's "Lonely Star" is oddly haunting, and his "Chalk Marks on the Sidewalk" refeshing and fun. Mira Spektor's "Call Me", with its charming and childlike quality, seems a fitting finale.