Songs for Mendham
"Having the idea and being prepared to back it was only the preliminary step in commissioning the 'Songs for Mendham'. My wife Lesley and I needed much more, of course. First a poet and a composer with the talent to translate the timeless beauty of Mendham into evocative words and music, and then a soloist and musicians to perform the songs as movingly as their creators had conceived them in their imaginations." - Michael Allen.
Recorded 25 August 2009 & 9 May 2010 in Ely Cathedral by kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of Ely. Mezzo-soprano Lita Manners, Piano Paul Trepte
Compact Disc
Ref LPCD33 Private Recording
TRACK LISTING
Songs For Mendham - Music Paul Trepte, Poems Denis Pye
- 1 BRIGHT COLOURS
- 2 HARVEST STORM
- 3 BY MENDHAM CHURCH
- 4 THE OLD MILL RACE
- 5 WILD MARSHES
Wesendonck Lieder - Music Richard Wagner, Poems Mathilde Wesendonck
- 6 Der Engel (The Angel)
- 7 Stehe still! (Be Quiet)
- 8 Im Treibhaus (In The Hothouse)
- 9 Schmerzen (Anguish)
- 10 Träume (Dreams)