The Straus and Coward works are excerpts from operettas; the Schubert from an opera; the Loewe from a musical.
Sung in the original languages, except the Straus work sung in French (originally German).
Compact disc.
Biographical and program notes by Ara Guzelimian and texts with English translations (23 p.) in container.
Recorded Mar. 7-8, 1988, First Congregational Church, Los Angeles, Calif.
Pastorale / Aaron Copland -- Del cabello más sutil / Fernando Obradors -- Azulão / Jayme Ovalle -- Ständchen / Richard Strauss -- Selige Nacht / Joseph Marx -- Fleurs / Francis Poulenc -- Stornello / Pietro Cimara -- Music, when soft voices die / Roger Quilter -- Je t'aime / Oscar Straus -- Love's philosophy / Roger Quilter -- Widmung ; Du bist wie eine Blume / Robert Schumann -- Das Rosenband / Richard Strauss -- Liebst du um Schönheit / Gustav Mahler -- Cantares / Joaquín Turina -- How do I love thee? / Edouard Lippé -- I'll follow my secret heart / Noel Coward -- Sérénade / Charles Gounod -- Liebe schwärmt auf allen Wegen / Franz Schubert -- Love went a-riding / Frank Bridge -- Why, no one to love / Stephen Foster -- O del mio amato ben / Stefano Donaudy -- The Salley Gardens / Benjamin Britten -- Heart, we will forget him / Aaron Copland -- Before I gaze at you again / Frederick Loewe