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David Mourns for Absalom

by Mildred Miller & Edwin Biltcliffe · from Songs by 20th Century American Composers

2011Classical3:00Track 1

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Review by Yuki Tanaka★★★½Sample

Overhyped? Maybe. Did I still cry at “David Mourns for Absalom”? Also maybe.

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Review by lena★★★★Sample

There's a version of me before this album and one after, and the after one is insufferable about it.

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Disc 1
1
David Mourns for Absalom
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3:00
2
Brigid's Song
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1:09
3
Sonatina to Hans Christian
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1:42
4
The Divine Image
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2:25
5
Love's Secret
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2:43
6
Polaroli
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1:48
7
The Frog and the Snake
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1:24
8
Valentine to Sherwood Anderson
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2:46
9
Send Home My Long Strayed Eyes
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2:28
10
Bedlam
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3:51
11
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
sample avg 3.9 · Donald Gramm & Richard Cumming
5:04
12
Come Away Death
sample avg 3.1 · Donald Gramm & Richard Cumming
2:39
13
Calvinistic Evensong
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3:07
14
Blue Mountain Ballads: Heavenly Grass
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2:22
15
Blue Mountain Ballads: Lonesome Man
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1:21
16
Blue Mountain Ballads: Cabin
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1:41
17
Blue Mountain Ballads: Sugar in the Cane
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1:49
18
The Drummer
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2:05
19
The Faucon
sample avg 4.0 · Donald Gramm & Richard Cumming
2:19
20
Looking Glass River
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2:41
21
Jazz-Boys
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1:13
Disc 2
1
Alleluia
sample avg 3.2 · Eleanor Steber & Edwin Biltcliffe
2:46
2
Four Poems by Emily Dickinson: It's All I Have to Bring
sample avg 3.7 · Eleanor Steber & Edwin Biltcliffe
1:16
3
Four Poems by Emily Dickinson: So Bashful
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1:24
4
Four Poems by Emily Dickinson: To Make a Prairie
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0:59
5
Four Poems by Emily Dickinson: And This of All My Hopes
sample avg 3.4 · Eleanor Steber & Edwin Biltcliffe
1:29
6
Nuvoletta
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4:39
7
Death Be Not Proud
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2:35
8
Lullee, Lullay
sample avg 3.3 · Eleanor Steber & Edwin Biltcliffe
2:59
9
Waikiki
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3:49
10
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
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2:11
11
The TIger
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1:57
12
The Sea
sample avg 3.1 · John McCollum & Edwin Biltcliffe
2:42
13
The Rose
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1:59
14
I Rise When You Enter
sample avg 3.2 · John McCollum & Edwin Biltcliffe
1:42
15
Dirge in Woods
sample avg 3.8 · John McCollum & Edwin Biltcliffe
3:10
16
Sorrow of Mydath
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4:05
17
Three by E.E. Cummings: Lady Will You Come With Me Into
sample avg 3.8 · John McCollum & Edwin Biltcliffe
1:16
18
Three by E.E. Cummings: Now (More Near Ourselves Than We)
sample avg 3.7 · John McCollum & Edwin Biltcliffe
2:13
19
Three by E.E. Cummings: Spring Is Like a Perhaps Hand
sample avg 3.5 · John McCollum & Edwin Biltcliffe
1:00
20
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
sample avg 4.0 · John McCollum & Edwin Biltcliffe
2:36
21
Mourn! Mourn!
sample avg 3.8 · John McCollum & Edwin Biltcliffe
4:22
22
The Donkey
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3:12