Australian Song Cycles - Vol 1 - CD

Features 32 songs from six song cycles by prominent Australian composers - Ian Cooper, John Peterson, Richard Charlton, Margaret Sutherland, Dulcie Holland and Nigel Butterley who have set poems by Jane Adamson, William Blake, Kenneth Slessor, Mary Gilmore, Robin Gurr.    Performed by Wendy Dixon (soprano) and David Miller (piano).
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Print music for First Person Feminine, Eternity's Sunrise, Four Blake Songs and Child in Nature are available online.

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First Person Feminine - Ian Cooper (Adamson)
1  i ,  - 2  ii   , - 3  iii , - 4 iv ,  - 5 v,   - 6  vi,   - 7  vii
Eternity's Sunrise - John Peterson (Blake)
8  Auguries of Innocence
9  On Another's Sorrow
10 Holy Thursday
11 Endless Night
12  Eternity
Statues - Richard Charlton (Slessor)
13  The Statues Awake
14  Venus and Apollo
15  Flowers- 16 The ghosts of flesh
17  Reality
Four Blake Songs - Margaret Sutherland (Blake)
18  Memory, hither come
19  Piping down the valley wild
20  How sweet I roamed
21  I love the jocund dance
Four Mary Gilmore Songs - Dulcie Holland (Gilmour)
22  Whom shall I praise?
23  Spring
24  The loving heart
25  Rittle rattle rittle
Child in Nature - Nigel Butterley (Gurr)
26  The Child
27  The Bird
28  Brown Jack 
29  Spider's Web 
30  The Cricket 
31  The Wind and the Song 
32  A Dark Glow About Me