Songs by Donald Swann
Photography: Sussie AhlburgPhotography: Joanna Bergin
Photography: Benjamin Ealovega
Photography: Trevor Leighton
Producer: Simon Perry
20170630
Labels: Hyperion
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Disc1
| 1 | A Collection of Songs: The licorice fields at Pontefract | Donald Swann | 2:06 |
| 2 | A Collection of Songs: Margate 1940 | Donald Swann | 4:05 |
| 3 | A Collection of Songs: Senex | Donald Swann | 2:08 |
| 4 | A Collection of Songs: A subaltern’s love song | Donald Swann | 5:01 |
| 5 | Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: Farewell | Donald Swann | 1:23 |
| 6 | Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I died for Beauty | Donald Swann | 1:34 |
| 7 | Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | Donald Swann | 2:11 |
| 8 | Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: Dying | Donald Swann | 1:08 |
| 9 | Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I had no time to Hate | Donald Swann | 1:59 |
| 10 | Two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you | Donald Swann | 2:13 |
| 11 | Two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet | Donald Swann | 1:30 |
| 12 | Stopping by woods | Donald Swann | 4:50 |
| 13 | Two poems by Thomas Hardy: Thoughts of Phena | Donald Swann | 2:59 |
| 14 | Two poems by Thomas Hardy: Before life and after | Donald Swann | 2:54 |
| 15 | Four lyrics from In memoriam: Be near me when my light is low | Donald Swann | 2:09 |
| 16 | Four lyrics from In memoriam: Oh yet we trust that somehow good | Donald Swann | 2:30 |
| 17 | Four lyrics from In memoriam: The wish | Donald Swann | 2:51 |
| 18 | Four lyrics from In memoriam: There rolls the deep | Donald Swann | 2:21 |
| 19 | Two poems by Christina Rossetti: When I am dead, my dearest | Donald Swann | 2:12 |
| 20 | Two poems by Christina Rossetti: A better resurrection | Donald Swann | 2:42 |
| 21 | Dark rose of my heart | Donald Swann | 3:57 |
| 22 | An invite to eternity | Donald Swann | 4:59 |
| 23 | The harlot’s house | Donald Swann | 4:12 |
Disc2
| 1 | Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Garden of Love | Donald Swann | 1:34 |
| 2 | Six songs to poems by William Blake: Ah! Sun-flower! | Donald Swann | 1:25 |
| 3 | Six songs to poems by William Blake: The sick Rose | Donald Swann | 0:59 |
| 4 | Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Angel | Donald Swann | 2:19 |
| 5 | Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Fly | Donald Swann | 1:39 |
| 6 | Six songs to poems by William Blake: Proverb | Donald Swann | 0:59 |
| 7 | Я вас любил (I loved you once) | Donald Swann | 2:51 |
| 8 | She is all harmony, all wonder | Donald Swann | 2:33 |
| 9 | Some people’s dreams | Donald Swann | 3:42 |
| 10 | Marguerite | Donald Swann | 3:31 |
| 11 | A red, red rose | Donald Swann | 2:09 |
| 12 | It was a lover, and his lass | Donald Swann | 1:57 |
| 13 | See, dearest, how the rose | Donald Swann | 1:57 |
| 14 | Arcades | Donald Swann | 1:50 |
| 15 | We’ll go no more a-roving | Donald Swann | 1:14 |
| 16 | Longing | Donald Swann | 2:40 |
| 17 | Oh, why are the roses so pale? | Donald Swann | 1:57 |
| 18 | Old songs of lost love | Donald Swann | 5:11 |
| 19 | In the mist | Donald Swann | 2:42 |
| 20 | Raiders’ dawn | Donald Swann | 2:04 |
| 21 | The youth of the heart | Donald Swann | 4:26 |
| 22 | He wishes for the cloths of heaven | Donald Swann | 2:46 |
| 23 | Bilbo’s last song (no. 9 of "The road goes ever on") | Donald Swann | 4:29 |