The Straus and Coward works are excerpts from operettas; the Schubert from an opera; the Loewe from a musical.

Previously released in 1988.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Ara Guzelimian, biographical notes on the performers, and texts with English translations (22 p.) inserted in container.

Includes settings of texts by A.F. von Schack and Friedrich Gottleib Klopstock (Strauss), Manuel Bandeira (Ovalle),Otto Erich Hartleben (Marx), Louise de Vilmorin (Poulenc), Arnaldo Frateili (Cimara), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Quilter), Albert Willemetz and Léopold Marchand (O. Straus), Rückert and Heine (Schumann), Rückert (Mahler), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Edouard Lippé), Noel Coward (Noel Coward), Victor Hugo, Goethe, and Mary Coleridge (Frank Bridge), William Butler Yeats (Britten), Emily Dickinson (Copland).

Recorded Mar. 7-8, 1988, First Congregational Church, Los Angeles, Calif.

Pastorale / Aaron Copland

Del cabello más sutil / Fernando Obradors

Azulão / Jayme Ovalle

Ständchen / Richard Strauss

Selige Nacht / Joseph Marx

Fleurs / Francis Poulenc

Stornello / Pietro Cimara

Music, when soft voices die / Roger Quilter

Je t'aime / Oscar Straus

Love's philosophy / Roger Quilter

Widmung ; Du bist wie eine Blume / Robert Schumann

Das Rosenband / Richard Strauss

Liebst du um Schönheit / Gustav Mahler

Cantares / Joaquín Turina

How do I love thee? / Edouard Lippé

I'll follow my secret heart / Noel Coward

Sérénade / Charles Gounod

Liebe schwärmt auf allen Wegen / Franz Schubert

Love went a-riding / Frank Bridge

Why, no one to love / Stephen Foster

O del mio amato ben / Stefano Donaudy

The Salley Gardens / Benjamin Britten

Heart, we will forget him / Aaron Copland

Before I gaze at you again / Frederick Loewe.

Schack, Adolf Friedrich von, 1815-1894 > Musical settings.

Bandeira, Manuel, 1886-1968 > Musical settings.

Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, 1724-1803 > Musical settings.

Hartleben, Otto Erich, 1864-1905 > Musical settings.

Vilmorin, Louise de, 1902-1969 > Musical settings.

Frateili, Arnaldo, 1888- > Musical settings.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Musical settings.

Willemetz, Albert > Musical settings.

Marchand, Léopold, 1891-1952 > Musical settings.

Rückert, Friedrich, 1788-1866 > Musical settings.

Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 > Musical settings.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 > Musical settings.

Coward, Noel, 1899-1973 > Musical settings.

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 > Musical settings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 > Musical settings.

Coleridge, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1861-1907 > Musical settings.

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 > Musical settings.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 > Musical settings.

Operas > Excerpts, Arranged.

Musicals > Excerpts, Arranged.