SONGS AND ARIAS
Garth Baxter, composer
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Songs & Arias By Garth Baxter is a vocal recording of art songs and opera excerpts by Garth Baxter, performed by Katherine Unha Keem, soprano, with Andrew Stewart, piano; Kathrin Murray, guitar; and Peter Scott Drackley, tenor. Released by Centaur Records on February 10, 2015, the album brings together songs for voice and piano, songs for voice and guitar, and five arias from Baxter’s opera Lily, offering a focused portrait of his lyrical, modern traditionalist approach to vocal writing.
I. Self Portrait At 44 — 3:31
II. Marks— 1:17
III. Caroline— 3:12
The Long Hill— 2:53
The Battle Cry: V. A Wife In London — 4:15
Grandmother, Think Not I Forget— 5:01
I. What Death Can Touch — 2:56
II. A Cradle Song — 4:20
I Will Always Be Beholden — 4:11
I Have Said I Love You — I Dare Not Dream — 6:25
Long Ago — 4:28
How Can These Hands— 4:29
How Strange To Think — 5:32
From The Heart, Three American Women
Vol. 1 “Three From Sara”
I. There Will Come Soft Rains — 2:46
II. The Inn Of Earth — 1:43
III. February Twilight — 1:12
Vol. 2 “Two Remembrances”
I. August — 1:49
II. Gone With The Wind — 3:20
Vol. 3 “Willa”
I. The Tavern — 3:04
II. The Hawthorn Tree — 2:02
III. L’envoi — 3:06
IV. Spanish Johnny — 4:53
“{This} release by composer Garth Baxter and performed by Katherine Unha Keem, soprano; Andrew Stewart, piano; Kathrin Murray, guitar; Peter Scott Drackley, tenor, features From the Heart: Three American Womens, {which} is a significant contribution to the guitar and voice repertoire with nine songs in the collection as well the 2 Songs of Reflection.”