Margaret Price recital, Manchester 1972

This Manchester Midday Concert from the Friends’ Meeting Room, was given in February 1972 by the Welsh soprano Margaret Price, accompanied by her husband James Lockhart.

Singing idiomatically in five languages, Margaret Price here demonstrates why she was such a formidable and versatile recitalist.  The creamy richness and power of her voice fill out each of the works in this recital, which cover a wide range of musical styles.

Track 1:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

Eine kleine deutsche Kantata K 619

Track 2:

Franz Liszt ((1811 – 1886)

Three Petrarch Sonnets

1. Pace non trovo
2. Benedetto sia ‘l giorno
3. I vid in terra

Track 3: 

Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)

The Poet’s Echo

1. Echo
2. My Heart
3. Angel
4. The Nightingale and the Rose
5. Epigram
6. Lines Written During a Sleepless Night

Track 4:

Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)

Cinq mélodies populaires grecques

1. Chanson de la mariée
2. Là-bas, vers l’église
3. Quel galant m’est comparable
4. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
5. Tout gai !

This recording was made from a relay of a concert given in Manchester 0n 10 February 1972.

The recording is from the Harewood Collection at Music Preserved.

We regret that there is some low level interference from another recording on the original tape.

• Margaret Price
  Soprano
• James Lockhart
  Piano