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Track(s) taken from CDH55156

Duna

composer
Josephine McGill (1877-1919)
author of text
Marjorie Pickthall (1883-1922)

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: 2 minutes 13 seconds

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

Josephine McGill was an authority on the songs of the Southern Appalachians. Her 1917 book Folk Songs of the Kentucky Mountains contains many of the ballads she had researched, much in the manner of Bartók in his preservation of Hungarian folk songs. This might explain the aura of folk melody which imbues Duna with such charm. It dates from 1914.

from notes by Robert White © 1995

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