A Lover's Gift / From Her To Him

26 SONGS • 1 STUNDE UND 17 MINUTEN • FEB 15 1996

1

How Do I Love Thee? (Browning)

02:53

2

The Song of Solomon: '...let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; ...'

03:20

3

A Birthday (Rossetti)

03:31

4

Romeo and Juliet: Act II Scene 2: O Romeo, Romeo! / Act III Scene 2: Gallop apace... (Shakespeare)

04:09

5

Tosca: Tosca, Act II: Vissi d'arte

03:20

6

Attributed letter from Marianna Alcoforado to the Marquis of Chamilly and St Leger

02:17

7

Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay

02:29

8

To My Dear and Loving Husband (Bradstreet)

01:30

9

We Two (Kuan Tao-Sheng)

01:32

10

Letter from Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de l'Espinasse to the Comte de Guibert

01:17

11

Psychology: 'Just for a moment both of them stood silent in that leaping light (Mansfield)

02:30

12

Letter from Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murray

01:42

13

Letter from Heloise to Abelard

02:17

14

Wuthering Heights:'My love for Heathcliffe resembles the eternal rocks beneath...' (Emily Bronte)

03:43

15

La boheme: La Boheme, Act I: Si, mi chiamano Mimi

05:23

16

Meeting (Rossetti)

02:51

17

Letter from Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron

02:48

18

If Thou Must Love Me (Browning)

01:35

19

Jane Eyre: 'I had not intended to love him...' (Charlotte Bronte)

04:19

20

Letter from George Sand to Pietro Pagello

04:35

21

Night and Day: 'They brought themselves by these means...' (Woolf)

06:00

22

Song of the Geishas: At Kataushike the river water/ Runs gently, and the plum blossom/ bursts out laughing...

00:30

23

Madama Butterfly: Madama Butterfly, Act II: Un bel di, vedremo

04:37

24

Conviction IV (Stevie Smith)

00:21

25

Letter from Clara Wieck to Robert Schumann

03:23

26

Ulysses: '...and then I asked him with my eyes and then he asked me would I yes...' (Joyce)

04:41

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