Rachel asks:
I'm looking for 4 or 5 simple songs (for soprano) with piano
accompaniment......does anyone have any recommendations?
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Some of my all time favourites that are mostly simple, hypnotic and dreamy, and
just plain beautiful include:
All The Pretty Little Horses - Folk Song
Suo Gan - aka Lullaby - Welsh Folk Song
The Garten Mother's Lullaby - Irish Folk Song - from County Donegal (see Herbert
Hughes collection Boosey and Hawkes)
All Through The Night - Welsh Folk Song
Coventry Carol (You know, the beautiful Christmas one? Lullay thy tiny little
child, etc.)
God Bless The Child (Hertzog/Holiday)
Sometimes I feel Like A Motherless Child
Golden Slumbers - both the traditional and Lennon/McCartney
Mocking Bird - aka Hush Little Baby - Folk Song
Forever Young (Dylan)
When At Night I Go To Sleep (Humperdinck) from Hansel and Gretel
Mozart's Cradle Song - Sleep my Princess - sorry don't know the German for it.
And of course the Brahms and the Schumann but you've got them.
Hope these might be of some assistance to you Rachel. A recording from a friend
singing lullabies would be one of the most treasured gifts I could think of to
give a new born. Do you have to limit it to only four or five? You could maybe
do a couple of folk ones unaccompanied. Just a suggestion. Hope you enjoy the
process, I loved singing to my own daughter as a baby, which is just as well.
Now she's older she always tells me to shut up the meanie! Geez but it's hard
getting an appreciative audience these days! LOL
Cheers
Michelle
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