Commissioned by RSF and Cantori NY, this is from Frank Brickle's 

Four Songs

#2  Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson

Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
    Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat,
Night-long within mine arms in love and sleep she lay;
Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
    When I awoke and found the dawn was grey:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind,
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
    Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine;
And I am desolate and sick of an old passion,
    Yea, hungry for the lips of my desire:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

Frank Brickle's Cynara

*Avaley Taan*

sopranos Elizabeth Farnum & Jessica Bowers
with Cygnus Ensemble members Cal Wiersma, Susannah Chapman, Oren Fader, William Anderson

Avaley Taan, by David Claman

Recorded by WNYC's New Sounds Live at SONiC Festival 2015. Mechanical instruments by Nick Yulman. http://www.wnyc.org/story/new-sounds-live-concerts-2015-part-1/

Me he perdido (performed by the American Composers Orchestra)

A pair of settings for baritone voice and piano. They were finished in 1976. They are performed here by the baritone, John Ballard, and my old friend, Robert Pollack. The texts are; 
I) "What a lovely day again! Were it a new made world and made for a summer house to the angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them, a fairer day could not dawn upon that world. 
II) Oh, grassy glades! Oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul, in ye, though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life, in ye men yet may roll like young horses in new morning clover and for some few fleeting moments feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them."
 

Settings From Ahab

Leo Brouwer Cuban Landscape with Rain
Sheer Pluck session at Bronxville School
April 14, 2014

Jeremy Tressler, engineer

William Anderson, conductor
Guitarists
Daniel Conant, Liz Hogg, Koh Kazama, Christopher Rispoli
Eric Anderson,  Emma Capp, Jocelyn Zorn, 
Valentina Savu, Zeke Bardash, Josh Rosenblum
Brandon Gaines, Jeff Starace, Steve Gomez,
Morgana Cragnotti, David Bradley

Leo Brouwer's Cuban Landscape with Rain

frank Brickle
Farai un Vers
Ab nou cor: Music of Frank Brickle
Cygnus Ensemble (Anderson-Fader, guitars) with soprano Elizabeth Farnum
Susannah Chapman, cello
http://furiousartisans.com/catalog/ab-nou-cor-music-of-frank-brickle

Frank Brickle: Farai Un Vers

Harvey Sollberger, flute; Paul Bowman, guitar. Recorded 2008 at Univ. California San Diego

Leo Brouwer's Cuban Landscape with Rain

wanderso

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