Donald Swann

Songs by Donald Swann

Featuring
Release date June 30, 2017

Tracklist

1
A Collection of Songs: The licorice fields at Pontefract
2:06
2:06
2
A Collection of Songs: Margate 1940
4:05
4:05
3
A Collection of Songs: Senex
2:08
2:08
4
A Collection of Songs: A subaltern’s love song
5:01
5:01
5
Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: Farewell
1:23
1:23
6
Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I died for Beauty
1:34
1:34
7
Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
2:11
2:11
8
Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: Dying
1:08
1:08
9
Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I had no time to Hate
1:59
1:59
10
Two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
2:13
2:13
11
Two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet
1:30
1:30
12
Stopping by woods
4:50
4:50
13
Two poems by Thomas Hardy: Thoughts of Phena
2:59
2:59
14
Two poems by Thomas Hardy: Before life and after
2:54
2:54
15
Four lyrics from In memoriam: Be near me when my light is low
2:09
2:09
16
Four lyrics from In memoriam: Oh yet we trust that somehow good
2:30
2:30
17
Four lyrics from In memoriam: The wish
2:51
2:51
18
Four lyrics from In memoriam: There rolls the deep
2:21
2:21
19
Two poems by Christina Rossetti: When I am dead, my dearest
2:12
2:12
20
Two poems by Christina Rossetti: A better resurrection
2:42
2:42
21
Dark rose of my heart
3:57
3:57
22
An invite to eternity
4:59
4:59
23
The harlot’s house
4:12
4:12
24
Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Garden of Love
1:34
1:34
25
Six songs to poems by William Blake: Ah! Sun-flower!
1:25
1:25
26
Six songs to poems by William Blake: The sick Rose
0:59
0:59
27
Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Angel
2:19
2:19
28
Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Fly
1:39
1:39
29
Six songs to poems by William Blake: Proverb
0:59
0:59
30
Я вас любил (I loved you once)
2:51
2:51
31
She is all harmony, all wonder
2:33
2:33
32
Some people’s dreams
3:42
3:42
33
Marguerite
3:31
3:31
34
A red, red rose
2:09
2:09
35
It was a lover, and his lass
1:57
1:57
36
See, dearest, how the rose
1:57
1:57
37
Arcades
1:50
1:50
38
We’ll go no more a-roving
1:14
1:14
39
Longing
2:40
2:40
40
Oh, why are the roses so pale?
1:57
1:57
41
Old songs of lost love
5:11
5:11
42
In the mist
2:42
2:42
43
Raiders’ dawn
2:04
2:04
44
The youth of the heart
4:26
4:26
45
He wishes for the cloths of heaven
2:46
2:46
46
Bilbo’s last song (no. 9 of "The road goes ever on")
4:29
4:29