O Mio Babbino Caro

Soprano Kathleen Anne Greene, Piano Nino Russell

If it is true, Chloris, that you love me,
And I have heard that you love me well,
I do not believe that kings themselves
Can match such happiness as mine.
Even death would be powerless
To come and change my fortune
For all the joys of heaven!
All that is said of ambrosia
Does not touch my imagination
Like the grace of your eyes!

Composed by Reynaldo Hahn, Poetry by Théophile de Viau

À Chloris - Hahn

Soprano Kathleen Anne Greene, Piano Nino Russell

Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me in delight awhile;
Let some pleasing dreams beguile
All my fancies; that from thence
I may feel an influence
All my powers of care bereaving!	 
 
Though but a shadow, but a sliding,
Let me know some little joy!
We that suffer long annoy
Are contented with a thought
Through an idle fancy wrought:
O let my joys have some abiding!

Composed by Ivor Gurney, Poetry by John Fletcher

Sleep - Gurney

Performed and recorded as part of the Leeds Lieder Festival 2018.  Music by Nino Russell, poem by David Coldwell.

Come, walk with me
and take the seeds from my hand
so they fall on solid ground
where, freed by gentle winds,
they find the shadows
of dying days; the bodies stretched
like arms of children held high,

reaching, towards different skies
with stars dulled by lights
now the wind calls your name.

Come, walk with me
and let me take you by the hand
to lead you through dreams where I give back the moon
and the stars as we watch flowers grow
in gardens sheltered from storms.
One day the birds will return.
Soon it will be dawn, someday soon.

The Seeds And The Sky - Russell

A Piper by Michael Head, performed at St John's Waterloo

Kathleen Anne Greene

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