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Song suggestions - More roses (and other flowers)
DUETS
Ivor Novello: We'll gather lilacs, from PERCHANCE TO DREAM -
Schumann: Schoen Bluemelein, op. 43 no. 3
Niels Gade: Fruehlingsgruss: Duet, from NEUN LIEDER IM VOLKSTON, Op. 9
(there are other soprano/alto duet settings of this text by Carl Greilh, Friedrich
Siebmann, and Emil Herold - and solo settings by Carl Loewe, Gustav Holst,
Aleksandr Zemlinsky, Anton Rubinstein, and Charles Ives, among others)
Oskar Wermann: Herbströslein, from VIER LEICHTE DUETTE, Op. 89
Anon.: There is no rose of such vertue
Franz von Hostein: Herbst, from ACHT LIEDER FUER ZWEI UND DREI
SINGSTIMME (OHNE BEGLEITUNG), OP. 48 (S/A a cappella)
Daniel Pinkham: The Blossom (for S/A chorus a cappella) (text also set as a
soprano/alto duet by Mary Grant Carmichael, in her FOUR SONGS)
Ernst Bacon: As if some little Arctic flower, from NATURE (for S/A chorus and
piano)
SOLOS
Sibelius: Svarta rosor (Black roses)
Berlioz: La spectre de la rose, from LES NUITS D'ETE
Bizet: Ouvre ton coeur
Debussy: Des fleurs, from PROSES LYRIQUES
Faure: Roses ardentes, from LA CHANSON D'EVE
Brahms: Sapphische Ode, from FUENF LIEDER, Op. 94
Schubert: Heidenröslein, D. 257
Schubert: Trockne Blumen, from DIE SCHOENE MUELLERIN
Wolf: Blumengruss, from GOETHE-LIEDER
Mendelssohn: The Reaper and the Flowers (Erntelied), Op. 8 No. 4
Schumann: Schnitter Tod, from BALLADEN UND ROMANZEN II, Op. 75
R. Strauss: Ich wollt ein Straeusslein binden, from SIX BRENTANO SONGS,
Op. 68
Tchaikovsky: Legend, Op. 54 No. 5 (aka The Crown of Roses)
Rachmaninoff: Margaritki, Op. 38 No. 1 and No. 3 (Daisies)
[3rd song in the video]
Rachmaninoff: U mojego okna, Op. 26 No. 10
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Rose and the Nightingale
Grieg: Zur Rosenzeit, Op. 48 No. 5
Ponce: Nocturno de las rosas
Guastavino: La rosa y el sauce
Guastavino: Rocio, from SEIS CANCIONES DE CUNA
[2nd song on video]
Mascagni: Rosa
Bellini: Vanne, o rosa fortunata
Mascagni: Son pochi fiori, from L'AMICO FRITZ
Quilter: Damask roses, from SEVEN ELIZABETHAN LOVE LYRICS, Op. 12
Quilter: Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2
Rorem: In a gondola, from SIX SONGS FOR HIGH VOICE
Lehmann: Each morn a thousand Roses brings, from IN A PERSIAN GARDEN
Handel: Ask if yon damask rose be sweet, from SUSANNA
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Ives: Two little flowers (and dedicated to them)
Vaughan Williams: I got me flowers, from FIVE MYSTICAL SONGS
[3rd song in the video]
William Lloyd Webber: So lovely the rose
Haydn Wood: Roses of Picardy
Chausson: Le temps de lilas
Friml: Only a rose, from THE VAGABOND KING
Trad.: The Rose of Tralee
Trad.: Red is the Rose
Trad.: My luve is like a red, red rose
von Flotow/Trad.: The Last Rose of Summer
Praetorius: Es ist ein ros' entsprungen
Purcell: Sweeter than roses
Amanda McBroom: The Rose
Dove Attia, et al.: Je dors sur des roses, from the rock opera MOZART
Mancini: The days of wine and roses
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Song suggestions
DUETS
Delibes: Viens, Mallika, les lianes en fleurs...Sous le dôme épais, from Lakmé -
Puccini: Scuoti quella fronda...Tutta la primavera, from Madama Butterfly -
Schumann: Erste Begegnung, from Spanisches Liederspiel, Op. 74 -
Rodgers & Hammerstein: My Favorite Things, from Sound of Music (the first
time it's sung in the musical, it's a duet for Maria and Mother Abbess) -
Simon & Norman: Come to my garden/Lift me up, from The Secret Garden -
Brown & Freed: Moses Supposes, from Singing in the Rain -
Ivor Novello: We'll gather lilacs, from Perchance to Dream -
MEZZO
Berlioz: Le spectre de la rose, from Les nuits d'eté -
Purcell: Sweeter than roses - http://www.youtube.com/watc=
h?v=3DohoB-8ZWgWo
Grieg: Zur Rosenzeit, Op. 48 No. 5 -
Chausson: La mort de l'amour, from Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer, Op. 19
Nielsen: Irmelin Rose, from Fem digte, Op. 4 -
Brahms: Mädchenlied, Op. 107 No. 5 -
Jule Styne: Everything's coming up roses, from Gypsy -
Charles Strouse: Spanish Rose, from Bye Bye Birdie -
SOPRANO
Handel: Ask if yon damask rose be sweet, from Susannah -
Haydn Wood: Roses of Picardy -
Elgar: Like to the damask rose, from Seven Lieder -
von Flotow: Letzte Rose, from <i>Martha</i> -
(or sing Moore's original,
"The last rose of summer" -
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Handel: Flammende rose, zierde der Erden, from 9 deutschen Arien -
Schubert: Heidenröslein, D. 257 -
Sibelius: Svarta Rosor, Op. 31 No. 1 -
Jerome Kern: Nodding Roses, from Very Good Eddie
Harold Arlen: House of Flowers, from House of Flowers
EITHER
Nevin: Mighty lak a rose -
Lerner & Loewe: I never met a rose, from The Little Prince -
Ivor Novello: Rose of England, from Crest of the Wave -
Silvers & De Sylva: April Showers, from Bombo -
Burns: My luve is like a red, red rose -
Trad.: Red is the rose -
Trad.: Bendemeer's Stream -
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