Marcus Maroney <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Is there a song cycle to words by Thomas Hardy (I believe written for D.
>Fischer-Dieskau but not the Songs & Proverbs of Blake Op 74)? I thought
>I saw someone program it here at Yale, but can't recall.  If so, is there
>a recording?

You're probably thinking of Winter Words (Soprano/Tenor& piano 1953).  My
favorite recording is with Anthony Rolfe Johnson on Hyperion; the Peter
Pears with Britten on Decca is, of course, of particular historical
interest.  And Ian Partridge (ASV), Philip Langridge (Collins), & Philip
Langridge(Collins) are fine as well.

--LA