Works for Me

Christopher Coleman

Radio Television Hong Kong: Radio 4

 

March 18: Love Letter to My Wife, Lorraine, on the Occasion of her Birthday

 

Sammy Fain: Love is a Many Spendored Thing

Boston Pops Orchestra, John Williams, conductor; Philips

 

Billy Preston: You Are So Beautiful

Joe Cocker; Star

 

Francis Poulenc: Les chemins de l'amour

Jessye Norman, soprano; Dalton Baldwin, piano; Philips

 

Parish/Burwell: Sweet Lorraine

Nat King Cole;

 

Poem: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese, XLIII: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

 

 

Ludwig van Beethoven: Ich liebe Dich

Elly Ameling, soprano; Rudolf Jansen, piano; Philips

 

Dietz/Schwartz: Dancing in the Dark

Jane Monheit; Sony

 

Frederic Chopin: Sliczny chlopiec (Handsome Youth)

Elly Ameling, soprano; Rudolf Jansen, piano; Philips

 

W. A. Mozart: Canzonetta and La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni

Ingvar Wixell, Mirella Freni; Philips

 

Randy Newman: You Can Leave Your Hat On

Joe Cocker; Capitol

 

Johannes Brahms: Vergebliches Standchen (Futile Serenade)

Elly Ameling, soprano; Rudolf Jansen, piano; Philips

 

Gershwin/Gershwin: Our Love is Here to Stay

Jessye Norman; John Williams, piano; Philips

 

Robert Schumann: Auftrage (Errand)

Elly Ameling, soprano; Rudolf Jansen, piano; Philips

 

Ewan MacColl: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Roberta Flack; Atlantic

 

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Gabriel Faure: Chanson d’amour; Notre Amour

Barbara Hendricks, soprano; Michel Dalberto, piano; EMI

 

Bright Sheng: Three Chinese Love Songs

Lisa Saffer, soprano; Paul Neubauer, viola; Bright Sheng, piano; New World

 

Gustav Mahler: Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

III. Verlor’ne Muh; VII: Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?; XII: Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; London Symphony Orchestra; George Szell; EMI

 

Richard Wagner: Selections from Wesendonk-Lieder

II. Stehe still! III. Im Treibhaus IV. Schmerzen

Kirsten Flagstad, soprano; Vienna Philharmonic, Hans Knappertsbusch; Decca

 

Christopher Coleman: Love Song from Divertimento for Woodwind Trio

I Fiatti Dolci

 

Coleman/cummings: since feeling is first

James Jirtle, baritone; The Shepherd Singers; Thomas Jaber, conductor

 

Giacomo Puccini: Diecimila anni al nostro Imperatore! From Turandot

Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pararotti; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta; London

 

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