Songs of Love (From the American Songbook) Gian Francesco Amoroso

• Ned Rorem (b. 1923): Do I Love You More than a Day?:
• 1 Rorem: Do I Love You More than a Day? 01:27
• Love:
• 2 Rorem: Love 02:05
• The Nightingale:
• 3 Rorem: The Nightingale 01:27
• O You, Whom I Often and Silently:
• 4 Rorem: O You, Whom I Often and Silently 00:31
• Look Down, Fair Moon:
• 5 Rorem: Look Down, Fair Moon 01:42
• Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981): Slumber Song of the Madonna:
• 6 Barber: Slumber Song of the Madonna 01:53
• Despite and Still, Op. 41:
• 7 Barber: Despite and Still, Op. 41: No. 4, Solitary Hotel 02:50
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29:
• 8 Barber: Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 8, The monk and his cat 02:42
• Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011): An Immorality:
• 9 Hoiby: An Immorality 01:34
• Summer Song:
• 10 Hoiby: Summer Song 03:07
• George Crumb (1929 - 2022): Three Early Songs:
• 11 Crumb: Three Early Songs: No. 1, How beautiful is night 03:18
• 12 Crumb: Three Early Songs: No. 2, Let it be forgotten 03:09
• 13 Crumb: Three Early Songs: No. 3, Wind elegy 02:38
• Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989): Mostly about Love:
• 14 Thomson: Mostly about Love: No. 1, Love song 02:22
• 15 Thomson: Mostly about Love: No. 2, Down at the docks 02:18
• 16 Thomson: Mostly about Love: No. 3, Let’s take a walk 02:35
• 17 Thomson: Mostly about Love: No. 4, A prayer to Saint Catherine 02:39
• John Musto (b. 1954): Shadow of the Blues:
• 18 Musto: Shadow of the Blues: No. 2, Litany 03:17
• Penelope:
• 19 Musto: Penelope: No. 4, Epithalamium 01:12
• Viva Sweet Love:
• 20 Musto: Viva Sweet Love: No. 2, Rome: in the café 02:38
• 21 Musto: Viva Sweet Love: No. 3,  You came as a thoug 01:37
• Scott Wheeler (b. 1964): Equinox:
• 22 Wheeler: Equinox 02:33
• Wasting the Night:
• 23 Wheeler: Wasting the Night: No. 2, Recuerdo 03:50
• 24 Wheeler: Wasting the Night: No. 5, The Betrothal 03:00
• I Will Always Be On Your Side:
• 25 Wheeler: I Will Always Be On Your Side 03:29
• Jake Heggie (b. 1961): Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia:
• 26 Heggie: Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia: No. 1, Ophelia’s song 02:36
• 27 Heggie: Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia: No. 4, Spring 03:37
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990): A Little Bit in Love:
• 28 Bernstein: A Little Bit in Love 02:45
• Total Runtime 01:08:51

Info for Songs of Love (From the American Songbook)

Songs Of Love From The American Songbook is a 2022 album by Lorna Windsor & Gian Francesco Amoroso and was released under the Da Vinci Classics label.

Lorna Windsor, soprano
Gian Francesco Amoroso, piano

Lorna Windsor
The English soprano Lorna Windsor explores many categories : not only contemporary to classical recitals and recordings, but also solo performance with top artists, actors, sculpture and art, light design, creating an original and exciting dimension to vocal performance.

Her traditional vocal training, following her piano and viola studies, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, was followed by specialization in Vienna and Paris. Her teachers included Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hans Hotter and Gérard Souzay.

Her stage temperament led her to operetta, and she made her debut as Rosalinde Die Fledermaus and in Die lustige Witwe by Lehár in Tours and Marseilles, and sang many roles in Offenbach operettas, directed by Jérôme Savary at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, at Radio France, etc. She also interpretated various roles in the 18th century neapolitan opere buffe for the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, directed by Graziella Sciutti. In Early Music, she has performed the 14th century songs of Trobadors in the original Occitan language. She has sung the operas and works of Monteverdi in Mantua, Vienna, Prague, Budapest directed by C.Gallico.

Among her Mozart roles are those of Venere in Ascanio in Alba, Donna Anna Don Giovanni a Glyndebourne, Despina Cosi fan tutte directed by Claudio Abbado, also in the Giorgio Strehler production for the Piccolo Teatro di Milan, in Roma, Beijing, Saint Petersburg and Moscow. She has sung opera by Salieri with Frans Bruggen, Bach cantatas with Gustav Leonhardt and among her recordings, Les Motets de Versailles by Blanchard.

Her opera roles include Euridice Euridice (Peri) at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, Oscar Un ballo in maschera in Reims, Sophie Der Rosenkavalier in Paris, Norina Don Pasquale at Verona and L ‘Enfant et les sortilèges with producer Daniele Abbado in Ancona and Bari.

Recognised as a refined interpreter of Lieder, Lorna Windsor frequently appears in romantic and contemporary chamber music, (in works by Berio (Sequenza, Folksongs, Circles), Cage, Feldman, Castiglioni, Hindemith, Crumb, Schoenberg (Pierrot Lunaire at the ROH Covent Garden, Streichquartett II), Denissov, Ives, Boulez, Messiaen, Kurtág (Kafka Fragments), Togni, Dallapiccola, Feldmann…) in leading international festivals, and is sought by numerous compositors of today who have dedicated their works to her, for her vocal qualities and interpretation. She collaborates with numerous soloists and prestigious internazionali ensembles and individual artists, such as Duccio Ceccanti, Bruno Canino, David Abramovitz, the Quartetto di Cremona, Alfonso Alberti, Mario Brunello, the Trio Magritte, etc, and often appears in duo with Antonio Ballista, both in traditional lieder repertoire and in the shows written specifically for them, where music, words and the theatre cross paths.

Lorna Windsor teaches in various northern Italian conservatories, holds masterclasses and teaches privately in Milan.

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