Songs on the subject of travel.

Song texts: by Robert Louis Stevenson (Vaughan Willams); by the composer (Mahler); by Fransesco Petrarcha (Pizzetti); by various poets (Duparc).

Compact disc.

Program notes in English, German and French, and texts with English, German and French translations in container.

Recorded Oct. 2004, Teldex Studio, Berlin.

Sung in English, German, Italian and French.

Songs of travel. The vagabond (2:58) ; Let beauty awake (1:55) ; The roadside fire (2:24) ; Youth and love (3:25) ; In dreams (2:17) ; The infinite shining heavens (2:24) ; Whither must I wander? (4:05) ; Bright is the ring of words ; I have trod the upward and the downward slope (1:45) / Ralph Vaughan Williams

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht (3:10) ; Ging heut morgen über's Feld (3:56) ; Ich hab' ein glühend Messer ; Die zwei blauen Augen (5:23) / Gustav Mahler

La vita fugge e non s'arresta un'ora (2:13) ; Quel rosigniuol che si soave piagne (3:45) ; Levommi il mio pensier in parte ov'era (3:11) / Ildebrando Pizzetti

L'invitation au voyage (3:59) ; Vague et la cloche (4:43) ; Extase (3:10) ; Phidylé (4:55) ; Le manoir de Rosemonde (2:18) ; Soupir (3:07) / Henri Duparc.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 > Musical settings.