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Track(s) taken from CDH55156

Bonnie wee thing

composer
Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
author of text
Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)
Recording details: June 1995
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 1995
Total duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds

Cover artwork: Poetry. Wiiliam Affleck (1868-1943)
 

A piece of exceptional beauty by Liza Lehmann. Worlds away from the splendour of Ah, moon of my delight, Lehmann sets this Robert Burns poem as a typical Scottish lullaby. In the course of this lullaby, however, she creates a climax of great power before coming to an appropriately gentle close.

from notes by Robert White © 1995

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