Swann ma senza Flanders: questo cofanetto doppio offerto al prezzo di un solo CD celebra il talento cristallino di un compositore di canzoni molto dotato, le cui opere basate sui versi di poeti del calibro di Burns e di Betjeman meritano di essere riproposte al grande pubblico. Protagonista di questo revival intriso di una vena di nostalgia è un quartetto di cantanti di primissimo piano, accompagnati al pianoforte da Christopher Glynn.
Tracklist
Donal Swann (1923-1994)
The licorice fields at Pontefract
Margate 1940
Senex
A subalterns love song
Farewell
I died for Beauty
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Dying
I had no time to Hate
And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet
Stopping by woods
Thoughts of Phena
Before life and after
Be near me when my light is low
Oh yet we trust that somehow good
The wish
There rolls the deep
When I am dead, my dearest
A better resurrection
Dark rose of my heart
An invite to eternity
The harlots house
The Garden of Love
Ah! Sun-flower!
The sick Rose
The Angel
The Fly
Proverb
Ya vas lyubil I loved you once
She is all harmony, all wonder
Some peoples dreams
Marguerite
A red, red rose
It was a lover, and his lass
See, dearest, how the rose
Arcades
Well go no more a-roving
Longing
Oh, why are the roses so pale?
Old songs of lost love
In the mist
Raiders dawn
The youth of the heart
He wishes for the cloths of heaven
Bilbos last song