St. Martin's Chamber Choir

Lullabies & Nocturnes

Program notes from Artistic Director Timothy J. Krueger

Nightfall  
  Abendlied (Evening Song) Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)
     
Lullabies from Different Traditions  
  English: Lullaby Sir Joseph Barnby (1838-1896)
  French: Calme des Nuits (Calm of the Night) Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
  Czech: Cradle Song Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904)
  Swedish: Aftonen (Evening) Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960)
  German: Ruhetal (Valley of Rest) Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
  American: A Cradle Song Craig Carnahan (b. 1951)
     
Silence and Sleep  
  Songs of the Summer Night F. Osmond Carr (1858-1916)
  Waternight Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
     
Dreamworld  
  Echoes Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
  Silence and Music Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
     
Night and Grief  
  In Stille Nacht Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
  Weep you no more Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)
  Sure on this shining night Samuel Barber (1910-1982)
     
Shadows of the Past  
  Music, when soft voices die Charles Wood (1866-1926)
  Sprig of Lilac Robert S. Cohen (b. 1945)
     
Hints of Dawn  
  Beau soir Claude Debussy (1867-1918)
  Serenade to Music Ralph Vaughan Williams
     
  Wiegenlied Johannes Brahms, arr. M. Susan Brown
 

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