CDH55422 - Disc 1 Track 12 - Transatlantic Lullaby - Hyperion Records

Transatlantic Lullaby

First line:

New York skyscrapers are sleeping

composer

Geoffrey Wright (b1959)

1936

author of text

Diana Morgan (b?)

author of text

Robert McDermot (b?)

Recordings

Blah blah blah & other trifles

Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)

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Details

Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Track 12 on CDH55422 [5'16] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

English

Transatlantic Lullaby

Geoffrey Wright’s Transatlantic Lullaby is a song of immediate appeal, and was written in 1936 for a Gate Theatre musical on that most English of subjects, an English prep school; the matron is an American floozie who sings her charges to sleep with her Transatlantic Lullaby. Both the soft-shoe shuffle of the refrain and the haunting parallel triads that accompany the singer’s opening lines unerringly conjure up the sleeping city.

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Details for CDH55422 track 12

Artists

Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano)

Roger Vignoles (piano)

ISRC

GB-AJY-89-28912

Duration

5'16

Recording date

17 June 1988

Recording venue

Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Mark Brown

Recording engineer

Antony Howell

Hyperion usage

Blah blah blah & other trifles (CDA66289)
Disc 1 Track 12
Release date: April 1989
Deletion date: March 2010
Superseded by CDH55422
Blah blah blah & other trifles (CDH55422)
Disc 1 Track 12
Release date: February 2012
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)