An Early Evening Stroll

Playlist:

1. Benjamin Britten – Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
   1. XVI: “Si come nella penna e nell’inchiostro” (“Just as in pen and ink”)
   2. XXXI: “A che più debb’io mai l’intensa voglia” (“To what purpose do I express my intense desire”)
   3. XXX: “Veggio co’ bei vostri occhi un dolce lume” (“I see through your lovely eyes a sweet light”)
   4. LV: “Tu sa, ch’io so, signor mie, che tu sai” (“You know that I know, my lord, that you know”)
   5. XXXVIII: “Rendete agli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume” (“Give back to my eyes, o fountains and rivers”)
   6. XXXII: “S’un casto amor, s’una pietà superna” (“If there is a chaste love, a heavenly pity”)
   7. XXIV: “Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede” (“Noble spirit, in whom is reflected”)
      Peter Pears, tenor, Benjamin Britten, piano.
2. Aram Katsjatoerian – Spartacus: Adagio from Spartacus and Phrygia
   St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yuri Temirkanov.
3. Leoš Janáček – String Quartet for violin, viola and cello, no.2, “Intimate Letters”
   1. Andante – Con moto – Allegro
   2. Adagio – Vivace
   3. Moderato –Andante – Adagio

4. Allegro – Andante –Adagio
   New Zealand String Quartet.

1. Florence Price – Adoration (Arr.)
   Randall Goosby, violin, Zhu Wang, piano.
2. Gustav Mahler –  Liebst du um Schönheit
   Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano, Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Simon Rattle.
3. Edward Elgar – Variations for orchestra, op.36, “Enigma”, Variation I.
   Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Litton.
4. Gabriel Fauré – La bonne chanson, op.61, no.1-9 ; L’hiver a cessé
   Maggie Teyte, soprano, Gerald Moore, piano.

Kamila Stösslová with her son Otto, 1917