This page lists all recordings of Sure on this shining night, Op. 13 No. 3, by Samuel Barber (1910-81) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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Jennifer Larmore, Antoine Palloc “there is Samuel Barber, up there where he belongs with the very best that song has to offer. His two James Joyce settings are stunning. Antoine Palloc plays it here with an awareness and strength of purpose that mark out his contributions throughout the disc.” “Jennifer Larmore has chosen with care. It feels like a personal choice, sung with personal concern, this young woman from Atlanta, Georgia, seems to know where it’s coming from.”
Gramophone, December 1997 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Andrew Swait (treble), James Bowman (counter tenor) & Andrew Plant (piano) "I was particularly keen to make this CD as I wanted a newer record of my treble voice: it has changed
significantly since my previous recordings as a chorister. I also wished to promote items which are not
normally associated with the standard treble repertoire.Through my association with Andrew Plant,The
Britten-Pears Foundation generously supported the creation of the recording and allowed me the immense
privilege of recording unpublished works by Britten, therefore greatly increasing the documental importance
of this CD... Mr Bowman's voice had been one of the first I had heard in recordings and live concerts. Later,
as a chorister, I was lucky enough to sing with him when he was a soloist in performances of Messiah and the
St John Passion.The chance to work with him made the prospect of the disc better than I could have
imagined." Andrew Swait “The voice of experience meets the voice of youth in this album contrasting the voices of Bowman, a countertenor, and Swait, a boy chorister.
Swait's voice is clear, bright and tuned with innate precision, ringing with carefree but studious childhood. Appealingly, he focuses on the mechanics of his singing, maintaining a childish ignorance of the full tragedy of Britten's Little Sir William. Bowman is the uncle, worldly and artistic, duetting with restraint and phrasing with a characteristic elegance and expressivity that Swait duly and sensibly mimics. The pianist Andrew Plant accompanies with sensitivity.” The Times, 12th July 2008 *** | 
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Choir or Ormond College, University of Melbourne, Douglas Lawrence | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Roberta Alexander (Soprano) Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo De Waart | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Sure on this shining nightThe romantic song in America
Barber: | Sure on this shining night, Op. 13 No. 3 | Beach: | The Year's at the Spring, Op. 44 No. 1 | Bolcom: | Never more will the wind | Chadwick: | When stars are in the quiet skies (Bulwer-Lytton) | Chanler: | The Children (Feeney) These, my Ophelia (MacLeish) | Charles, E: | When I have sung my songs | Copland: | Nature, the gentlest mother (Dickinson) | Corigliano: | Song to the Witch of The Cloisters (Hoffman) | Ewazen: | The Tiger (Blake) | Firestone: | If l could tell you (Marshall) | Friml: | Rose Marie (Harbach & Hammerstein) | Griffes: | An Old Song Re-sung (Masefield) | Hageman: | Do Not Go My Love | Herbert, V: | Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life (Johnson Young) | Hindemith: | On hearing 'The Last Rose of Summer' (Wolfe) Echo | Ives, C: | The Side Show The Collection (Kingsley) | Korngold: | Songs of the Clown: 'Come Away, Death' | Malotte: | The Lord's Prayer | Marder: | To a Stranger (Whitman) | Musto: | Triolet (O'Neill) | Parker, H: | June Night (Higginson) | Romberg, S: | One Alone (Harbach & Hammerstein) | Rorem: | Little Elegy | Schuman: | Orpheus with His Lute | Thomson, V: | Sigh no more, ladies (Shakespeare) |
Robert White (tenor), Samuel Sanders (piano) Tenor Robert White sings 28 romantic songs spanning the century by both native American and immigrant composers, from Amy Beach in 1899 to Marc Marder's Walt Whitman setting of 1996. There are many favourites (or 'favorites') here from the musical stage, including Friml's Rose Marie and Victor Herbert's Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life. Malotte's famous setting of The Lord's Prayer is also included. The title of the CD is taken from Samuel Barber's beautiful setting of James Agee (the poet of Knoxville, Summer of 1924).
The accompanying booklet is packed with anecdotes from Robert White's personal acquaintance with the majority of the composers represented. Several of the songs were actually written specially for him to sing. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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