"Boy on the Mountain" from the world première performance and recording of James Jensen's 'The Theodore Hadden Songbook'.

Ginger Jones, mezzo-soprano
Brian Locke, piano

Recorded live in Columbia, South Carolina for the Society of Composers National Conference.

The Theodore Hadden Songbook: Boy At The Mountain

Franz Schubert: Lied der Mignon, D. 877/4 "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt"

Summer Hassan, soprano
Brian Locke, piano
- - -
Only one who knows longing
knows how I suffer!
Alone and cut off
from all joy,
I look into the direction
of the heavens.

Ah! he who loves and knows me
is far away.
I am reeling,
my gut is burning.
Only one who knows longing
knows how I suffer!

Schubert: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt

Reynaldo Hahn: L'énamourée

Summer Hassan, soprano
Brian Locke, piano

They say, my dove,
that you are still dead and dreaming
beneath a tombstone
But you awaken, revived, 
for the soul that adores you,
oh pensive beloved!

Through the sleepless nights,
in the murmuring breeze,
I caress your long veils,
your swaying hair
and your half-closed wings
which flutter among the roses.

Oh delights! I breathe
your divine blond tresses!
Your pure voice, a kind of lyre,
moved on the swell of the waters
and touches them gently, suavely,
like a lamenting swan!

Hahn: L'énamourée

Ivor Gurney: Sleep

Summer Hassan, soprano
Brian Locke, piano
- - -
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!