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3 Songs, Op 10 (ii, Sleep now)
Composer: Samuel Barber
Performer: Kitty Whately (Mezzo)
Performer: Simon Lepper (Piano)
Recording date: 01 September 2018
Date of broadcast: 26 July 2019
The second song of Barber's 'Three Songs op. 10', first published in 1939, the text is taken from James Joyce's collection of poems 'Chamber Music'. A purposeful beginning gives way to stabbing, controlled spikes from the piano while the mezzo-soprano sings "The voice of the winter, is heard at the door". Not a happy song.
Composer: Samuel Barber
Performer: Kitty Whately (Mezzo)
Performer: Simon Lepper (Piano)
Recording date: 01 September 2018
Date of broadcast: 26 July 2019
