From “Les Nuits d’été” (Summer Nights), Op. 7 by Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
1. Villanelle
4. L’Absence
6. L’ile inconnue
Speak Low from “One Touch of Venus” by Kurt Weill (1900-1950), words by Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
Surabaya Johnny from “Happy End” by Kurt Weill, English words by Michael Feingold (b. 1945), Original German words by Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
Complainte de la Seine by Kurt Weill, words by Maurice Magre (1877-1941)
What Good Would The Moon Be? from “Street Scene” by Kurt Weill, words by Langston Hughes (1901-1967)
Emily Riesser, soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano
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