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Four songs. Cara e dolce ; La speranza ; Difesa non ha ; Toglietemi la vita ancor / Alessandro Scarlatti -- Four songs. Mad Bess ; If music be the food of love ; There's not a swain of the plain ; Man is for the woman made / Henry Purcell ; realized by Benjamin Britten -- Samson. Recit: Why by an angel ; Recit: Oh, loss of sight ; Aria: Total eclipse / George Frederick Handel -- An die ferne Geliebte : op. 98. Auf dem Hügel sitz' ich, spähend ; Wo die Berge so blau ; Leichte Segler in den Höhen ; Diese Wolken in den Höhen ; Es kehret der Maien, es blühet die Au ; Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Songs of travel. Bright is the ring of words ; Linden Lea ; Hugh the drover. Hugh's song of the road / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Traditional : Three Irish folk songs. Must I go bound ; Down by the Salley Gardens ; Ballynure ballad / arr. Herbert Hughs -- Gypsy melodies : op. 55. My song resounds ; Silent woods ; Songs my mother taught me ; Garbed in flowing linen ; The heights of Tatra / Antonin Dvořák., John Vickers, tenor ; Richard Woitach, piano., Compact disc., Biographical notes and program notes in English and French, and texts of the works with English and French translations ([26] p.) in container., Performed by: Jon Vickers, tenor ; Richard Woitach, piano., Recorded at the Student Union Theatre of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, as part of the 1974 CBC Alberta Festival of Music.