Prima Facie Records

Songs and Piano Music to Treasure (PFCD253) £12.50/£17.50

Michael Hancock, baritone and piano

1. Scarlatti: Sonata in E major [02:54]
2. Scarlatti: Sonata in C major [02:25]
3. Ireland: Sea Fever (words John Masefield) [02:00]
4. Handel: Silent Worship (arr. Somervell) [01:57]
5. Brahms: Intermezzo in A Op. 118 No 2 [05:21]
6. Grieg: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen [06:15]
7. arr. Burleigh: 3 Spirituals “Standin’ in the need of Prayer”, “I got a robe”, “Were you there?” [05:28]
8. Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin [02:06]
9. Debussy: Minstrels [02:34]
10. Sanderson: Until (words E. Teschemacher) [02:03]
11. Squire: If I might come to you (words F.E. Weatherley) [02:21]
12. Field: Nocturne No. 5 in B flat major [03:03]
13. Squire: When you come home (words F.E. Weatherley) [03:22]
14. Löhr: Where my caravan has rested (words E. Teschemacher) [02:09]
15. D’Hardelot: Because (words E. Teschemacher) [02:13]
16. Chopin: Nocturne in E flat major Op. 9 No. 2 [04:05]
17. Novello: We’ll gather lilacs (from ‘Perchance to Dream’) [05:25]
18. Vaughan Williams: Let beauty awake (from ‘Songs of Travel’ words R.L Stevenson) [01:35]
19. Vaughan Williams: The Infinite Shining Heavens [01:59]
20. Vaughan Williams: Bright is the Ring of Words [01:43]
21. Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon (words D.G. Rossetti) [04:03]
22. Mendelssohn: Song without Words No.18 Duetto [02:52]
23. Fauré: Après un rêve (words R. Bussine) [02:22]
24. Fauré: Romance sans Paroles [02:06]
25. Quilter: Now sleeps the crimson petal (words Tennyson) [01:54]
26. arr. Burleigh: Steal away, Spiritual [03:36]
Total [78:11]

Credits

Recording producer Laurence Perkins.
Original recordings made in Manchester in 1986 and 1989.
Tracks 1 to 9 were recorded at a live concert in Christ Church, West Didsbury on 30th April 1986. Piano by Blüthner.
Tracks 10 to 26 were recorded at the Music Department, Manchester University on December 18th 1989. Piano by Steinway.
Transfer from tape to CDs by Maynard Hall.
Remastering on to one CD by Joseph Hancock in 2025.
Front cover ‘Sunset over Bute’, photo by Eleanor Hancock.
Any profits from this CD will be donated to Signpost International: signpost-international.org

Sponsors
Patricia Johnson, Benjamin Knibbs, Irene Roberts Davies, John Davies, Harold and Anne East, Clive and Margaret Riches, Annie Garden, Jean Brayshaw, Eeke van Gulik, Charles Weir, Janet Newbery, Eleanor Hancock, Juliet Rowcroft, Robin Walker, Stuart and Gwen Mallin.

Subscribers
Andrew Leggott, Pamela Birks, Harriet Malone, David and Margaret Ferriby, Sandra Sherlock, John Eckersley, Margaret Hancock, John Turner, Gillian Rothery, Anne Waite, Fiona Weakley Mandy Crabtree, Paul Hirst, Paula Carruthers, Lyn Young, Carolyn Fyfe, Vanessa Turpin, Frances Faux, Sally Pengelley, Mark Weatherill, Chris and Michaela Goan, Kathleen Hale, Margaret Watson, Lynne Vincent, Annie Gray, Alan and Lynne Maxfield, Barry Wilkinson, Margaret Scott, Jim Hyslop, Angela Hewitt, Susan Thompson, Margaret Harrison, Avril Tisdall, Jane Conlan and Barrie Thomas.