Arthur Bliss 'Angels Of The Mind' arranged for Soprano and Piano.Bliss had wanted to set some of Kathleen Raine???s poems for a long time but seeming to him as delicate as flowers or shells he didn't want to spoil their fragile beauty. In 1964 he was invited to collaborate with this poet.During Cambidge University's 500th year of the music degree. He composed a Cantata The Golden to her works which emboldened him to choose seven poems from her collected words written during the years from 1935 to 1949 and this forms the Song Cycle.

Description The Second Book Of Soprano Solos The songs in this collection represent various periods of music history as well as selected sacred solos. Compiled by Joan Frey Boytim. Songlist A Pastoral [Veracini, Francesco Maria] A Spring Morning [Carey, Henry] Art Is Calling For Me [Herbert, Victor] Bescheidebne Liebe [Wolf, Hugo] Das Verlassene Magdlein [Wolf, Hugo] Die Nacht [Strauss, Richard] Down In The Forest [Ronald, Landon] Fiocca La Neve [Cimara, Pietro] Hark! The Echoing Air [Purcell, Henry] Hear My Prayer, O Lord [Dvorak, Antonin] La Zingara [Donizetti, Gaetano] Les Cloches [Debussy, Claude] Love's Philosophy [Quilter, Roger] Mein Glaubiges Herze (My Heart Ever Faithful) [Bach, Johann Sebastian] My Heart Is Like A Singing Bird [Parry, Hubert] O Divine Redeemer [Gounod, Charles] Oh! Had I Jubal's Lyre [Handel, George Frideric] Shepherd! Thy Demeanour Vary [Brown, Thomas] Sleep, Gentle Cherub, Sleep Descend [Arne, Thomas] Song Of The Blackbird [Quilter, Roger] Take O Take Those Lips Away [Beach, Amy] The Sun Shall Be No More Thy Light [Greene, Maurice] The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze (The Mikado) [Sullivan, Arthur] These Are They Which Came [Gaul, Alfred Robert] To The Birds (A Des Oiseaux) [Hue, Georges] Un Moto Di Gioja [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Vergebliches Standchen Op.84 No.4 [Brahms, Johannes] Vieille Chanson [Bizet, Georges] Villanelle (I Saw The Swift Swallow Flying) [Dell'acqua, Eva]