On this day in music history - The album Bel Canto, by Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers (2002)

Bel Canto

by Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers

was released on August 27, 2002.

Track list:

Bellini / La sonnambula: “Ah!..se una volta sola”; Bellini / La sonnambula: “Ah!..non credea mirarti”; Bellini / La sonnambula: “Ah! non giunge uman pensiero”; Donizetti / Maria Padilla: “Abbracciami”; Donizetti / Maria Padilla: “Il piu tenero suon d’arpa morende”; Donizetti / Maria Padilla: “Ah! non sai qual prestigio si cela”; Rossini / Semiramide: Introduzione; Rossini / Semiramide: “Bel raggio lusinghier”; Rossini / Semiramide: “Dolce pensiero di quell’istante”; Bellini / Il pirata: Introduzione; Bellini / Il pirata: “Ah! s’io potessi dissipar le nubi”; Bellini / Il pirata: “Col sorriso d’innocenza”; Bellini / Il pirata: “Oh sole! ti vela di tenebre oscure”; Rossini / Armida: “D’Amor al dolce impero”; Rossini / Armida: “Gli augei tra fronde e fronde”; Rossini / Armida: “La fresca eta sen fugge”; Rossini / Armida: “Ah! si, godete amanti”; Donizetti / Lucrezia Borgia:”M’odi, ah m’odi, io non t’imploro”; Donizetti / Lucrezia Borgia: “Figlio!...Figlio!...Ola, qualcuno!”; Donizetti / Lucrezia Borgia: “Era desso il figlio mio”.

Recommended reading - The Best of Ogden Nash

 

The Best of Ogden Nash
548 Favorite Poems from America's laureate of light verse

Edited by Linell Nash Smith.

Published by Ivan R. Dee.
Published 2007.

ASIN: 1566637031
ISBN-10: 9781566637039
ISBN-13: 978-1566637039

Hardcover.

Description:

An outstanding, rare collection of works essential for any definitive poetry library. – Midwest Book Review.

It's been more than thirty years since the appearance of a collection from America's laureate of light verse. Ogden Nash first gathered together an anthology of thirty years of his published works in 1959. In 1973 his daughters gathered more than four hundred of his poems and called it I Wouldn't Have Missed It, a quote from one of his verses. Now more poems have come to light, so his daughters have once again produced The Best of Ogden Nash, the definitive Nash anthology. The poems display the talent of the man whose verse entranced America from the time of the Great Depression until his death in 1971. The Best of Ogden Nash should delight old fans and introduce new readers to a unique talent.