LoveNotes

 

 

 

 

 

The Music & Poetry of Love

 

 

 

 Performed and Recited by

 

  

Peter Simon

 

Pianist

 

 

 

  

Musical Selections:

 

 

 

Hymn to Love…………………………....…………….Franz  Liszt

                                                                      Hungary (1811-1886)

 

Clair du Lune……………………………....……….Claude Debussy

                                                                       France (1862-1918)

                    

Nocture in E-flat………………………...………….Frederic Chopin

                                                                       Poland (1810-1849)

 

Romance                                            
Liebeslied……………………………….……….. Robert Schumann

                                                                      German (1810-1856)

 

Lullaby……………………………………..…..…Johannes Brahms

                                                                     German (1833-1897)

 

Hark Hark The Lark!……………………..…………Franz Schubert

                                                                      Austria (1797-1828)

 

Etude in D-Sharp Minor……………………..…..Alexander Scriabin

                                                                             Russia  (1872-1915)

 

Variations on a theme by Paganini…………...……Sergei Rachmaninoff

                                                                      Russia (1873-1943)

 

Liebestraum…………………………….......………….Franz Liszt 

                                                                      Hungary (1811-1886)

 

 

 

 

Poetry Selections:

 

First Corinthians 13:4-8………………….…..………New Testament

                                                                                                        

Sonnet CXVI…………………………….…….William Shakespeare

                                                                                                England  (1564-1616) 

                                           

To My Dear and Loving Husband…………....……….Anne Bradstreet

                                                                                                 America  (1612-1672) 

 

Sonnet XLIII……………………………Elizabeth Barrett Browning

                                                                                               England  (1806-18611) 

I Love You……………………................……….…Annonymous

 

MotherHood……………………………………....Washington Irving

                                                                                               America  (1783-1859)

 

A Welcome…………………………………......…Thomas O. Davis

                                                                                                 Ireland  (1814-1845)

 

For the Moment…………………………......……….Pierre Reverdy

                                                                                                 France (1889-1960)
 

Solomon’s Song of Songs…………………......….The Old Testament

 

I find No Peace & Bear No Arms for War……....….Francesco Petrarch

                                                                                                     Italy (1304-1374)

 

Annabel Lee…………………………….......…….Edgar Allan Poe

                                                                                                 America (1809-1849)

 

Love’s Resurrection Day………………….....Louise Chandler Moulton

                                                                                                America (1835-1908)

 

Every Day, Matilde

Finale…………………………………….........……Pablo Neruda

                                                                        
 
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