Mary Howe: Songs and Duets
The name of Mary Howe (1882–1964) seems to have vanished from the history books. But she was an important voice in American music in the first half of the twentieth century, as an activist and organiser, as a concert pianist and, especially, as a composer. This pioneering album of her songs shows her late-Romantic style open to influences from Debussy, Mahler, Richard Strauss and other contemporaries: she was, she said, ‘alert for new sensations, like a Puritan on a holiday’.
Courtney Maina, soprano (tracks 1,2, 4, 10-13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22)
Christopher A. Leach, tenor (tracks 1, 3, 5-10, 13, 17, 18, 21, 22)
Mary Dibbern, piano
Listen To This Recording:
- The Horseman (1940)**
- Berceuse cossaque (1922)*
- Chanson souvenir (1925)
- Reach (1925)*
- No. 1 Der Einsame (1931)*
- No. 2 Liebeslied (1931)
- No. 3 Schlaflied (1931)*
- No. 4 Herbsttag (1934)*
- The Rag Picker (1932)**
- Chanson des Coulennes (1933)*
- Now Goes the Light (1935)*
- No. 1 Am Flusse
- No. 2 Die Götter
- L’Amant des roses (1942)*
- No. 1 Nicht mit Engeln *
- No. 2 Mein Herz **
- Lullaby for a Forester’s Child (1945)**
- Rêve (1945)*
- Spring Come Not Too Soon (1947)*
- Horses (1951)*
- Little Fiddler’s Green (1952)*
- Music When Soft Voices Die (1921)**
Vier Gedichte
Two Goethe Settings (1940)*
Two Mirza Schaffy Settings (1942)
https://d3i77y9w5vf4up.cloudfront.net/TOCC0634/Track22.mp3
*FIRST RECORDINGS
**FIRST MODERN RECORDINGS
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