Heart & Hereafter: Collected Songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912): 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57:
• 1 Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 1, Oh, What Comes Over the Sea 01:33
• 2 Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 2, When I Am Dead, My Dearest 02:19
• 3 Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 3, Oh, Roses for the Flush of Youth 02:39
• 4 Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 4, She Sat and Sang Alway 02:15
• 5 Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 5, Unmindful of the Roses 02:07
• 6 Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57: No. 6, Too Late for Love! 04:49
• Southern Love Songs, Op. 12 (Excerpts):
• 7 Coleridge-Taylor: Southern Love Songs, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 3, Minguillo 01:50
• 8 Coleridge-Taylor: Southern Love Songs, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 4, If Thou Art Sleeping, Maiden 01:03
• 9 Coleridge-Taylor: Southern Love Songs, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 2, Tears 02:23
• 7 African Romances, Op. 17:
• 10 Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 1, An African Love Song 02:15
• 11 Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 2, A Prayer 01:23
• 12 Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 3, A Starry Night 01:01
• 13 Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 4, Dawn 01:10
• 14 Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 5, Ballad 02:37
• 15 Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 6, Over the Hills 01:44
• 16 Coleridge-Taylor: 7 African Romances, Op. 17: No. 7, How Shall I Woo Thee 02:38
• 5 Fairy Ballads (Excerpts):
• 17 Coleridge-Taylor: 5 Fairy Ballads (Excerpts): No. 3, Big Lady Moon 02:07
• 5 Songs of Sun and Shade (Excerpts):
• 18 Coleridge-Taylor: 5 Songs of Sun and Shade (Excerpts): No. 4, Thou Art Risen, My Beloved 02:16
• 19 Coleridge-Taylor: 5 Songs of Sun and Shade (Excerpts): No. 1, You Lay So Still in the Sunshine 02:52
• 20 Coleridge-Taylor: 5 Songs of Sun and Shade (Excerpts): No. 2, Thou Hast Bewitched Me, Beloved 01:32
• Faust, Op. 70:
• 21 Coleridge-Taylor: Faust, Op. 70: No. 4, A King There Lived in Thule 03:47
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor:
• 22 Coleridge-Taylor: A Lament 02:59
• 6 Songs, Op. 37 (Excerpts Arr. for Soprano & Piano):
• 23 Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Songs, Op. 37 (Excerpts Arr. for Soprano & Piano): No. 2, Canoe Song 01:40
• 24 Coleridge-Taylor: 6 Songs, Op. 37 (Excerpts Arr. for Soprano & Piano): No. 1, You'll Love Me Yet 02:32
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor:
• 25 Coleridge-Taylor: Life and Death 01:51
• Total Runtime 55:22

Info for Heart & Hereafter: Collected Songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Known for her vivid portrayals and full, distinctive voice, Elizabeth Llewellyn has established herself internationally as a dramatic and vocal artist of distinction. She has chosen to offer listeners something new by devoting her debut disc to the music of Samuel Coleridge\-Taylor, much of it never recorded before. To poetry by Christina Rossetti, Coleridge\-Taylors Six Sorrow Songs and A Lament are almost all world\-premiere recordings. The Southern Love Songs evoke styles including Latin music and flamenco, and the African Romances, never recorded until now, are to words by African\-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar. Big Lady Moon is to poetry by West African polymath Kathleen Mary Easmon, and the sensuous Three Songs of Sun and Shade are followed by more previously\-unreleased songs: A king there lived in Thule, Canoe Song and Youll Love Me Yet. The recital ends with Life and Death, in which Coleridge\-Taylor anticipates styles that would become popular two decades after his death. This was a composer ahead of his time who, at last, is starting to receive the recognition he deserves.

Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano
Simon Lepper, piano

Elizabeth Llewellyn
Known for her vivid portrayals and her full, distinctive voice, since making her debut as Mimi/La Boheme in 2010 at the English National Opera, Elizabeth has established herself internationally as a dramatic and vocal artist of distinction.

Specialising in the Italian repertoire, her roles have included Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Magda/La Rondine, Giorgetta/Il Tabarro, Tosca, Suor Angelica, Aida, Luisa Miller, and Amelia/Simon Boccanegra for which Elizabeth was nominated for “Singer of the Year 2013” in OpernWelt. In 2019, Elizabeth made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York in the title role of Bess in Porgy and Bess.

Elizabeth also is a sought-after concert artist. Recent appearances have included debut recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall and Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh. Orchestral performances include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Verdi’s Requiem, Elgar’s Caractacus and Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony with Martyn Brabbins (both recorded for Hyperion), and a live performance of Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder on BBC Radio 3 with the BBCSO and Donald Runnicles.

Future plans include a series of recitals at the Wigmore Hall, centred around the songs of Coleridge-Taylor, her French debut as Tosca with Opera Dijon, and her role debuts as three Verdi heroines: Desdemona/Otello, Alice Ford/Falstaff, and Leonora/Il Trovatore.

Simon Lepper
read music at King’s College, Cambridge before studying collaborative piano with Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music in London and later with Ruben Lifschitz at the Académie de Royaumont, France. Specialising in song accompaniment, he has regularly collaborated with singers including Benjamin Appl, Ilker Arcayürek, Christiane Karg, Karen Cargill, Stéphane Degout, Angelika Kirchschlager, Sally Matthews and Mark Padmore. He performs extensively in venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the festivals of Verbier, Ravinia and Edinburgh, and the Opera houses of Frankfurt, Geneva, Bordeaux and La Monnaie. In his home country, he is often heard on BBC Radio 3 and regularly performs at the Wigmore Hall where he has also curated a series on the songs of Joseph Marx.

He is a committed teacher and is currently professor of collaborative piano and a vocal repertoire coach at the Royal College of Music, London where he also co-ordinates the collaborative piano course. Since 2003 he has been the official accompanist for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.

His discography includes a live recital disc with Stéphane Degout and a disc of Ballades, Mahler songs and a French Song recital with Karen Cargill, 2 volumes of Debussy Songs and a Strauss disc with Gillian Keith, the complete songs of Jonathan Dove with Kitty Whately, Schubert Songs with Ilker Arcayürek and a recital disc with Dame Felicity Palmer.

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