Various Artists - Classic American Love Songs / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. If 2. I Love You for Sentimental Reasons 3. The Man I Love 4. The Boy from Ipanima 5. Send in the Clowns 6. Misty 7. Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered 8. The Shadow of Your Smile 9. The Look of Love 10. Killing Me Softly with His Song 11. I Say a Little Prayer 12. Do You Know Where You Are Going to 13. What's New 14. Night and Day

Love! Is all about love. About love in the period from the 17th century to the 21st, via Russia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Germany, to England and the United States. About passionate love, motherly love, forbidden love and love lost. There is a love dance and much more. But Love! Is also about us, about our love for music and the unique combination formed by our instruments. Because the orchestral possibilities and the specifically melancholy tone color of the accordion form a magnificent blend with the scintillating and sonorous sound of the violin. This is the second on Challenge Classics by the unique duo of accordionist Marieke Hopman and violinist Cecile Hujnen. Album Tracks 1. Romeo & Juliet~Montagues & Capulets 2. Romeo & Juliet~Dance of the Girls 3. Romeo & Juliet~Mask Dance 4. Romeo & Juliet~From Death of Juliet 5. Chanson Russe 6. Tango 7. Ave Maria 8. From 'The Gipsy Songs' Op. 55 No. 4 Songs My Mother Taught Me 9. Summertime 10. All the Things You Are, Are Mine 11. Man I Love 12. So in Love 13. Sonata for violin & continuo No. 3 in D minor~Imitazione delle Campane 14. Candybox 15. Turks Fruit~Suite 16. Salut d'Amour, Op. 12

'This programme reflects a personal journey I am Belgian, I studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and now I live in France. I wanted to present composers from these three countries, taking as my cornerstone the English song repertory and the English language. It was Britten's On this Island that started me thinking in this direction. William Walton's Daphne and Ivor Gurney's tiny but intensely fresh Spring touch me enormously and form a part of my life experience. Nicolas Krüger and I then chose other songs that we liked, such as Let Beauty awake by Ralph Vaughan Williams... I also wanted to give my listeners a chance to hear French or Belgian composers who set English poems to music Darius Milhaud, Germaine Tailleferre (one of those female composers who deserves to be better known) and Irene Poldowski... and to commission a work from the Belgian composer Patrick Leterme, who has often accompanied me... But I discovered Queen before I discovered opera. When I heard Freddy Mercury singing You take my breath away at the piano in Hyde Park, I was overwhelmed. I had to include that love song in my recital!' - Jodie Devos Album Tracks 1. Come to Me in My Dreams, H. 71 2. Love Went A-Riding, H. 114 3. Reeds of Innocence 4. Songs of Travel Let Beauty Awake 5. Love's Philosophy 6. Five Elizabethan Songs 7. To Love 8. On This Island, Op. 11 9. Two Love Songs, Op. 30 Love My Heart Longs Day and Night 10. Two Poems By Oscar Wilde 11. Two Love Songs, Op. 30 Peace, My Heart 12. Three Songs from InchFaçadeInch 13. Tu Mi Chamas 14. You Take My Breath Away