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- GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898–1937)
- ‘I got rhythm’, from Girl Crazy (1930)
- ‘Dust of Snow’
- ‘The Rose Family’
- ‘The Line Gang’
- ‘In Evening Air’ (1966) [piano solo]
- ‘Night Thoughts (Homage to Ives)’ (1972) [piano solo]
- ‘Poet’s Song’ (1927)
- ‘Voyage’ (1943)
- ‘English Usage’
- ‘My Crow Pluto’
- ‘Little four paws’
- ‘Little Christmas Tree’
- ‘In just’
- ‘Hist whist’
- ‘Another comes’
(arr. Peter Dickinson) Text: Ira Gershwin (1896–1983)
E L L I O T T C A R T E R (born 1908) Three Poems of Robert Frost (1943)
Premiere recording Texts: Robert Frost (1874–1963)
AARON COPLAND (1900–1990)
Premiere recording
Premiere recording Text: E. E. cummings (1894–1962)
E L L I O T T C A R T E R (born 1908)
Premiere recording Text: Hart Crane (1899–1932)
VIRGIL THOMSON (1896–1989) Two by Marianne Moore (1963)
Premiere recording Texts: Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
JOHN CAGE (1912–1992) Five Songs for Contralto (1938) (7’52”)
Premiere recording Texts: E. E. cummings (1894–1962)
VIRGIL THOMSON (1896–1989)
- ‘Portrait of F. B. (Frances Blood)’ (1929)
- ‘A Foggy Day’, from A Damsel in Distress (1937)
- ‘They all laughed’, from Shall we Dance (1937)
- ‘There came a wind like a bugle’
- ‘Why do they shut me out of Heaven?’
- ‘The world feels dusty’
- ‘Heart, we will forget him’
- ‘Dear March, come in!’
- ‘Sleep is supposed to be’
- ‘I felt a funeral in my brain’
- ‘I’ve heard an organ talk sometimes’
- ‘Going to Heaven!’
Text: Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898–1937)
(arr. Peter Dickinson) Text: Ira Gershwin (1896–1983)
(arr. Peter Dickinson) Text: Ira Gershwin (1896–1983)
AARON COPLAND (1900–1990) from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (1950) (19’22”)
Texts: Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
Mereil Dickinson (mezzo soprano) [tracks 1–4; 7–27]
Peter Dickinson (piano)
Tracks 1–18: Recorded 28 March 1977, All Saints’, Petersham, Surrey Producer, sound engineer & editor: Bob Auger Digital remastering: Peter Newble Tracks 19–27: Live recording, 20 April 1975, Walter Moberly Hall, Keele University, Staffs Sound engineer: Cliff Bradbury Not previously released Digital remastering: Peter J. Reynolds and Peter Newble
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‘these recordings also have authority as well as boundless expressiveness and enthusiasm. It’s a wonderful musical voyage to the New World.’
Nigel Simeone, International Record Review, November 2014
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‘Thank you so much for sending me your excellent recording. I have listened to the performances with the greatest pleasure. Your playing is absolutely top-flight, and your sister’s command of the Gershwin style, let alone all the others, is superb.’
William Schuman
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‘Meriel Dickinson’s mezzo is in fine fettle, and she thrillingly embraces the stylistic extremes of Copland’s ecstatic ‘Going to Heaven’ and the eccentric speech-song of Virgil Thomson’s ‘Portrait of F.B.’
Paul Driver, Sunday Times, 2012
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‘Elegant Elliott Carter and John Cage’
BBC Music Magazine, September 2013