Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Heart & Hereafter: Collected Songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Heart & Hereafter: Collected Songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:32 minutes | 878 MB | Genre: Classical
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Known for her vivid portrayals and full, distinctive voice, Elizabeth Llewellyn has established herself internationally as a dramatic and vocal artist of distinction. She has chosen to offer listeners something new by devoting her debut album to the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, much of it never recorded before. To poetry by Christina Rossetti, Coleridge-Taylor’s Six Sorrow Songs and A Lament are almost all world-premiere recordings.

The Southern Love Songs evoke styles including Latin music and flamenco, and the African Romances, never recorded until now, are to words by African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar. Big Lady Moon is to poetry by West African polymath Kathleen Mary Easmon, and the sensuous Three Songs of Sun and Shade are followed by more previously-unreleased songs: A king there lived in Thule, Canoe Song and You’ll Love Me Yet.

The recital ends with Life and Death, in which Coleridge-Taylor anticipates styles that would become popular two decades after his death. This was a composer ahead of his time who, at last, is starting to receive the recognition he deserves.

Tracklist:
01. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 1, Oh, What Comes Over the Sea (01:33)
02. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 2, When I Am Dead, My Dearest (02:19)
03. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 3, Oh, Roses for the Flush of Youth (02:39)
04. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 4, She Sat and Sang Alway (02:15)
05. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 5, Unmindful of the Roses (02:07)
06. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 6, Too Late for Love! (04:49)
07. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: Southern Love Songs, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 3, Minguillo (01:50)
08. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: Southern Love Songs, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 4, If Thou Art Sleeping, Maiden (01:03)
09. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: Southern Love Songs, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 2, Tears (02:23)
10. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 1, An African Love Song (02:15)
11. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 2, A Prayer (01:23)
12. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 3, A Starry Night (01:01)
13. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 4, Dawn (01:10)
14. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 5, Ballad (02:37)
15. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 6, Over the Hills (01:44)
16. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 7, How Shall I Woo Thee (02:38)
17. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 5 Fairy Ballads (Excerpts): No. 3, Big Lady Moon (02:07)
18. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 5 Songs of Sun and Shade (Excerpts): No. 4, Thou Art Risen, My Beloved (02:16)
19. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 5 Songs of Sun and Shade (Excerpts): No. 1, You Lay So Still in the Sunshine (02:52)
20. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 5 Songs of Sun and Shade (Excerpts): No. 2, Thou Hast Bewitched Me, Beloved (01:32)
21. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: Faust, Op. 70: No. 4, A King There Lived in Thule (03:47)
22. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: A Lament (02:59)
23. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Songs, Op. 37 (Excerpts Arr. for Soprano & Piano): No. 2, Canoe Song (01:40)
24. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Songs, Op. 37 (Excerpts Arr. for Soprano & Piano): No. 1, You’ll Love Me Yet (02:32)
25. Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper – Coleridge-Taylor: Life and Death (01:51)