Title from container.

Sung chiefly in English, with some Latin and German settings.

On container: vol. 4 (series apparently never completed).

Program notes by the conductor & texts laid in container.

Recorded 1975 and 1976.

[rec. 1] The harmony of morning (Mark van Doren) / Elliott Carter (9:24)

On the beach at night (Walt Whitman) / Andrew Imbrie (13:05)

Four madrigals. Shake off your heavy trance (Francis Beaumont) ; The Faery beam upon you (Ben Jonson) ; Death, be not proud (John Donne) ; Corinna's gone a-maying (Robert Herrick) / Jacob Druckman (7:02)

Mail order madrigals (Sear's, Roebuck catalogue, 1897) / William Schumann (10:30)

The house on the hill : a madrigal cantata (Edwin Arlington Robinson) / Michael Hennagin (12:45).

[rec. 2] Legend : The lion and the unicorn (Dorothy Scott Shaw) / Gregg Smith (8:34)

The Eve of St. Agnes (John Keats) / William Mayer (13:40)

Lie lightly gentle Earth (John Fletcher) / Paul Chihara (4:02)

Riddle me this / William Bergsma (6:10)

Bitte (Nikolaus Lenau) ; Weltlauf (Heinrich Heine) / Carolyn Madison (2:27)

Thomas Hardy songs. Let me enjoy ; Waiting both ; First or last ; The reminder ; I need not go ; The ballad singer ; On a midsummer eve ; To a joyful lady, singing / Donald Waxman (16:20)

[rec. 3] Missa brevis / Ned Rorem (16:19)

Four motets. There is no rose ; Ave Maria ; As dew in Aprille ; That yongë child / Ronald Roxbury (9:34)

In dulci jubilo / Edmund Najera (4:29)

Mass to St. Anthony / Lou Harrison (23:16).

Music > United States > 20th century.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Peabody Conservatory Chorus.

Peabody Conservatory Orchestra.

Texas Boys' Choir.