Song suggestions - flowers and roses

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DUETS


Ivor Novello: We'll gather lilacs, from PERCHANCE TO DREAM -
We'll gather lilacs - Muriel Barron and Olive Gilbert - YouTube


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
Anonymous 15th century - There is no rose of such virtue - YouTube


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)
Karita Mattila: "Svarta rosor" / "Black roses" (Sibelius) - YouTube


Berlioz: La spectre de la rose, from LES NUITS D'ETE
Berlioz Les Nuits d'Été Op.7 Le spectre de la rose - YouTube


Bizet: Ouvre ton coeur
"Ouvre ton coeur" G Bizet - Jaroussky - YouTube


Debussy: Des fleurs, from PROSES LYRIQUES
Claude Debussy - Proses Lyriques - III. De fleurs - YouTube


Faure: Roses ardentes, from LA CHANSON D'EVE
Renée Doria sings "Roses ardentes" from Fauré's "La Chanson d'Eve" - YouTube


Brahms: Sapphische Ode, from FUENF LIEDER, Op. 94

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odxh12bqDIU

Schubert: Heidenröslein, D. 257
Arleen Auger - Franz Schbert "Heidenröslein" - YouTube


Schubert: Trockne Blumen, from DIE SCHOENE MUELLERIN
Fritz Wunderlich - Schubert - Trockne Blumen - YouTube


Wolf: Blumengruss, from GOETHE-LIEDER
Wolf: Blumengruß - Régine Crespin, 1967 live - YouTube


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
EDITA GRUBEROVA & FRIEDRICH HAIDER. ICH WOLT EIN STRÄUSSLEIN BINDEN. RICHARD STRAUSS. - YouTube


Tchaikovsky: Legend, Op. 54 No. 5 (aka The Crown of Roses)
Nicolai Gedda - Legend Op.54 #5(Tchaikovsky) - YouTube


Rachmaninoff: Margaritki, Op. 38 No. 1 and No. 3 (Daisies)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EtU0hpNQk8 [3rd song in the video]


Rachmaninoff: U mojego okna, Op. 26 No. 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70mICbC8eDo

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Rose and the Nightingale
Anna Netrebko "The Nightingale and the Rose" - YouTube


Grieg: Zur Rosenzeit, Op. 48 No. 5
Elena Bogatowa, Victor Schpinitzkij: Grieg (lyrics by Goethe) - "Zur Rosenzeit" op.48


Ponce: Nocturno de las rosas
Nocturno de las rosas - Manuel M. Ponce - YouTube


Guastavino: La rosa y el sauce
Sumi Jo - Carlos Guastavino - La Rosa Y El Sauce (The Rose And The Willow) - 1994 - YouTube


Guastavino: Rocio, from SEIS CANCIONES DE CUNA
Canciones de Cuna - Carlos Guastavino. Claudia Rolando (soprano) Melina Marcos (piano) - YouTube [2nd song on video]


Mascagni: Rosa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXjUKgv3-Y0

Bellini: Vanne, o rosa fortunata
Pavarotti-Bellini-Vanne, o rosa fortunata - YouTube


Mascagni: Son pochi fiori, from L'AMICO FRITZ
MIRELLA FRENI "SON POCHI FIORI" - YouTube


Quilter: Damask roses, from SEVEN ELIZABETHAN LOVE LYRICS, Op. 12


Quilter: Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKk7HPUMHY

Rorem: In a gondola, from SIX SONGS FOR HIGH VOICE
In a Gondola by Ned Rorem - YouTube


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)
Charles Ives - Songs - Two Little Flowers (1921) - YouTube


Vaughan Williams: I got me flowers, from FIVE MYSTICAL SONGS
Vaughan Williams "Five Mystical Songs" (p. 1) - Thomas Allen at Last Night of the Proms 2004 - YouTube [3rd song in the video]


William Lloyd Webber: So lovely the rose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROC0ylQ5COg

Haydn Wood: Roses of Picardy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wLzQCcxP78

Chausson: Le temps de lilas
Nathalie Stutzmann : " Le temps des Lilas" by Ernest Chausson - YouTube


Friml: Only a rose, from THE VAGABOND KING
"Only A Rose" (1930) Richard Crooks - YouTube


Trad.: The Rose of Tralee
Stuart Burrows The Rose of Tralee Mary of Argyle - YouTube


Trad.: Red is the Rose
Red Is The Rose - Liam Clancy - YouTube


Trad.: My luve is like a red, red rose
Isla St Clair - My Love is like a Red Red Rose - YouTube


von Flotow/Trad.: The Last Rose of Summer
Deanna Durbin - The Last Rose of Summer - YouTube


Praetorius: Es ist ein ros' entsprungen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIvsB38v1ts

Purcell: Sweeter than roses
Sweeter Than Roses - Andreas Scholl - YouTube


Amanda McBroom: The Rose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6_s0QIbI94

Dove Attia, et al.: Je dors sur des roses, from the rock opera MOZART
Je dors sur des roses - YouTube


Mancini: The days of wine and roses
Days of Wine and Roses..Perry Como - YouTube

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Song suggestions

DUETS


Delibes: Viens, Mallika, les lianes en fleurs...Sous le dôme épais, from Lakmé -
Sumi Jo & Ah-Kyung Lee - Delibes - Lakme - Flower Duet - YouTube


Puccini: Scuoti quella fronda...Tutta la primavera, from Madama Butterfly -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAyXpr74fCM

Schumann: Erste Begegnung, from Spanisches Liederspiel, Op. 74 -
Barbara Bonney Angelika Kirchschlager "Erste Begegnung" "First Encounter" Robert Schumann - YouTube


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) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFxOriWYF9w

Simon & Norman: Come to my garden/Lift me up, from The Secret Garden -
Come to my garden (duet) - The Secret Garden - YouTube


Brown & Freed: Moses Supposes, from Singing in the Rain -
Singing In The Rain - Moses Supposes - YouTube


Ivor Novello: We'll gather lilacs, from Perchance to Dream -
We'll gather lilacs - Muriel Barron and Olive Gilbert - YouTube


MEZZO


Berlioz: Le spectre de la rose, from Les nuits d'eté -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kabnm-vzxc

Purcell: Sweeter than roses - http://www.youtube.com/watc=
h?v=3DohoB-8ZWgWo


Grieg: Zur Rosenzeit, Op. 48 No. 5 -
Zur Rosenzeit E. Grieg - YouTube


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 -
Mette Svarre. "Irmelin Rose" - YouTube


Brahms: Mädchenlied, Op. 107 No. 5 -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW3F2fO6Ysc

Jule Styne: Everything's coming up roses, from Gypsy -
Gypsy - "Everything's Coming Up Roses" - YouTube


Charles Strouse: Spanish Rose, from Bye Bye Birdie -
Ann Reinking Spanish Rose from Bye Bye Birdie - YouTube


SOPRANO


Handel: Ask if yon damask rose be sweet, from Susannah -
Handel Susanna-ask if yon damask rose - YouTube


Haydn Wood: Roses of Picardy -
"Roses Of Picardy" (1929) James Melton - YouTube


Elgar: Like to the damask rose, from Seven Lieder -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxUBrZ_s808

von Flotow: Letzte Rose, from <i>Martha</i> -
Wilma Driessen - Letzte Rose (Flotow) - YouTube (or sing Moore's original,
"The last rose of summer" -
The Last Rose of Summer/Maureen Hegarty - YouTube )


Handel: Flammende rose, zierde der Erden, from 9 deutschen Arien -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNs_bua0llw

Schubert: Heidenröslein, D. 257 -
Arleen Auger - Franz Schbert "Heidenröslein" - YouTube


Sibelius: Svarta Rosor, Op. 31 No. 1 -
Karita Mattila: "Svarta rosor" / "Black roses" (Sibelius) - YouTube


Jerome Kern: Nodding Roses, from Very Good Eddie


Harold Arlen: House of Flowers, from House of Flowers


EITHER


Nevin: Mighty lak a rose -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYK4A-9wcs8

Lerner & Loewe: I never met a rose, from The Little Prince -
The Little Prince (P.6) - YouTube


Ivor Novello: Rose of England, from Crest of the Wave -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5V-AG9KxcI

Silvers & De Sylva: April Showers, from Bombo -
April Showers, Al Jolson - YouTube


Burns: My luve is like a red, red rose -
My love is like a red red rose - YouTube


Trad.: Red is the rose -
Tommy Makem - Red Is The Rose - YouTube


Trad.: Bendemeer's Stream -
Bendemeer&#39;s Stream - John Charles Thomas - YouTube