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Track(s) taken from CDA66920

One Alone

First line:
Lonley as a desert breeze, I may wander where I please
composer
1926 The Desert Song
author of text
author of text

Robert White (tenor), Samuel Sanders (piano)
Recording details: July 1996
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: April 1997
Total duration: 3 minutes 0 seconds
 

Reviews

‘This is a very charming record’ (Gramophone)

‘A delightful, imaginatively wide-ranging anthology. A most enjoyable entertainment as well as a true voyage of discovery’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘I felt as if I was discovering these songs for the first time’ (Soundscapes, Australia)
A light-hearted loneliness is portrayed in the opening bars of One Alone from The Desert Song, written in 1926 by the Hungarian-born, naturalized American Sigmund Romberg. This song is part of a unique repertoire of romantic American ‘arias’ that the whole country sang—with gusto—in the first half of the century.

from notes by Robert White © 1997

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