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Six Songs: What Sparks and Wiry Cries

by Ned Rorem & Phyllis Curtin · from Ned Rorem: The Nantucket Songs

1983Classical2:31Track 18

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Review by Priya Raman★★★½Sample

Good album to do dishes to. Great album to stare at the ceiling to.

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Review by Oskar Lind★★★½Sample

Overhyped? Maybe. Did I still cry at “Six Songs: What Sparks and Wiry Cries”? Also maybe.

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1
Nantucket Songs: From Whence Cometh Song
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0:55
2
Nantucket Songs: The Dance
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1:27
3
Nantucket Songs: Nantucket
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1:15
4
Nantucket Songs: Go, Lovely Rose
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1:35
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Nantucket Songs: Up-Hill
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3:00
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Nantucket Songs: Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel
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0:31
7
Nantucket Songs: Fear of Death
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3:39
8
Nantucket Songs: Thoughts of a Young Girl
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1:57
9
Nantucket Songs: Ferry Me Across The Water
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1:36
10
Nantucket Songs: The Dancer
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1:54
11
Some Trees: Some Trees
sample avg 2.9 · Ned Rorem, Beverly Wolff, Phyllis Curtin & Donald Gramm
1:57
12
Some Trees: The Grapevine
sample avg 3.1 · Ned Rorem, Beverly Wolff, Donald Gramm & Phyllis Curtin
2:09
13
Some Trees: Our Youth
sample avg 4.1 · Ned Rorem, Donald Gramm, Phyllis Curtin & Beverly Wolff
6:36
14
Six Songs: Little Elegy
sample avg 3.4 · Ned Rorem & Phyllis Curtin
1:39
15
Six Songs: Night Crow
sample avg 3.4 · Ned Rorem & Donald Gramm
1:54
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Six Songs: The Tulip Tree
sample avg 4.0 · Ned Rorem & Phyllis Curtin
1:46
17
Six Songs: Look Down, Fair Moon
sample avg 3.9 · Ned Rorem & Donald Gramm
1:30
18
Six Songs: What Sparks and Wiry Cries
sample avg 3.4 · Ned Rorem & Phyllis Curtin
2:31
19
Six Songs: For Poulenc
sample avg 4.0 · Ned Rorem & Phyllis Curtin
2:59
20
Women's Voices: Let Not Charitable Hope
sample avg 4.0 · Ned Rorem & Katherine Ciesinski
2:01
21
Women's Voices: A Birthday
sample avg 4.0 · Ned Rorem & Katherine Ciesinski
1:23
22
Women's Voices: To My Dear and Loving Husband
sample avg 3.5 · Ned Rorem & Katherine Ciesinski
1:58
23
Women's Voices: To The Ladies
sample avg 4.0 · Ned Rorem & Katherine Ciesinski
1:22
24
Women's Voices: If Ever Hapless Woman Had a Cause
sample avg 3.8 · Ned Rorem & Katherine Ciesinski
2:36
25
Women's Voices: We Never Said Farewell
sample avg 3.8 · Ned Rorem & Katherine Ciesinski
2:36
26
Women's Voices: The Stranger
sample avg 3.0 · Ned Rorem & Katherine Ciesinski
3:04
27
Women's Voices: What Inn is This?
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1:10
28
Women's Voices: Defiled Is My Name
sample avg 3.5 · Ned Rorem & Katherine Ciesinski
1:08
29
Women's Voices: Electrocution
sample avg 3.9 · Ned Rorem & Katherine Ciesinski
2:09
30
Women's Voices: Smile, Death
sample avg 3.0 · Ned Rorem & Katherine Ciesinski
2:53