Composer: Mary Howe
Performer: Courtney Maina, Christopher A. Leach, Mary Dibbern
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC 0634
Release: 2022
Size: 1.15 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. The Horseman
02. Berceuse cosaque
03. Chanson souvenir
04. Reach
4 Gedichte
05. No. 1, Der Einsame
06. No. 2, Liebeslied
07. No. 3, Schlaflied
08. No. 4, Herbsttag
09. The Ragpicker
10. Chanson des Coulennes
11. Now Goes the Light
2 Goethe Settings
12. No. 1, Am Flusse
13. No. 2, Die Götter
14. L’amant des roses
2 Mirza Schaffy Settings
15. No. 1, Nicht mit Engeln
16. No. 2, Mein Herz
17. Lullaby for a Forester’s Child
18. Rève
19. Spring Come Not Too Soon
20. Horses
21. Little Fiddler’s Green
22. Music When Soft Voices Die
The name of Mary Howe (1882–1964) seems to have vanished from the history books. But she was an important voice in American music in the first half of the twentieth century, as an activist and organiser and, especially, as a composer. This first-ever album of her songs shows her late-Romantic style open to influences from Debussy, Mahler, Richard Strauss and other contemporaries: she was, she said, ‘alert for new sensations, like a Puritan on a holiday’.