Art Songs Heart Songs

Kerry-Anne Kutz, Soprano
Nicholas Fairbank, Piano

Nicholas Fairbank lives and works in Victoria, BC, Canada. His music has been described as “carefully crafted,” “consistently elegant, and devoted to beauty as a vehicle for text…” – “a composer worth studying”. His works have been performed across North America and in Europe by such groups as the Turning Point Ensemble, Hexaphone, organists Patrick Wedd, Martin Stacey and Valerie Hall, sopranos Catherine Fern Lewis, Elizabeth MacIsaac and Kerry-Anne Kutz, pianist Richard Raymond and the Quatuor Molinari. Recent commissions have come from Victoria’s Ensemble Laude, the Viva Youth Choirs, and the Royal Canadian College of Organists.

Six Chansons textes par Pierre-Albert Birot (1994)
1. L’Allée en tournant 1:08
2. Mon nez dit tout bas 0:51
3. Chers pieds 0:55
4. J’ai souvent un petit désir 1:01
5. Rêve d’amour 1:26
6. Valse 2:00

Three Animal Songs (1999)
7. The Tyger (Text / William Blake) 3:19
8. The Yak (Text / Hillaire Belloc) 1:21
9. O Brother Chicken (Text / Edward Lear) 1:51

10. July Midnight (2008) (Text / Amy Lowell) 2:50
11. I Dreamed I Was a Cat (Text / Stephen Scobie) 1:06
12. The Shark (2006) (Text / E. J. Pratt) 3:01
13. Indian Summer (2009) (Text / Wilfred Campbell) 1:31

Six Songs by Sara Teasdale (2001)
14. Barter 2:52
15. Winter Bluejay 2:50
16. Lovely Chance 2:28
17. At Sea 1:13
18. Winter Dusk 2:10
19. A Little While 1:52