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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.

Track-specific metadata

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 and 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Superseded by CDH55422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)