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]

Cantata-Suffused with a sense of purity and innocence Dies Natalis sets out to depict a newborn child's first sensations of the world. Set to the text of a poem by Thomas Traherne and inspired by Botticelli's painting Mystic Nativity the sense of joy and wonder in the celebration of creation are conveyed with a spontaneity and rapture that are breathtaking. Originally composed as a cantata for tenor or soprano solo and string orchestra this is a reduction for Tenor (or Soprano) voice and Piano accompaniment.