Song cycles with double bass and piano / Allan Blank. — Albany, NY : Albany Records, [2012?]

Album description

1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.
Albany Records: TROY1364.
Song cycles with double bass and piano accompaniment; with mezzo-soprano (1st work), with soprano (2nd work).
Sung in English and Yiddish (1st work), in English (2nd work).
Words by Abraham Sutzkever, Isaiah Spiegel, and children interned at Terezin concentration camp (1st work); by Jane Kenyon (2nd work).
Catharine Thieme, mezzo-soprano (1st work) ; Jennifer Miller, soprano ((2nd work) ; Andrew Kohn, double bass ; Robert Thieme (1st work), Robert Frankenberry (2nd work), piano (2nd work).
Program and biographical notes, and texts (with English translations of the Yiddish) ([14] pages : illustrations, portraits), inserted.
Contents: Poems from the Holocaust. (1996) De profundis : A Song of ascents (instrumental, 5:32) ; At Terezin (2:37) ; Shpieltzeig (5:46) ; Man proposes, God disposes (1:21) ; Makh tsu di Eyegelekh (10:20) ; The butterfly (3:02) ; Kaddish (instrumental, 4:57) -- Introduction, five poems, interludes & conclusion. (2007) Introduction (2:56) ; Let evening come (5:28) ; Interlude I (1:57) ; Peonies at dusk (2:13) ; Interlude II (1:23) ; Finding a long gray hair (2:21) ; Interlude III (:59) ; The thimble (2:23) ; Interlude IV (:29) ; Otherwise (5:41) ; Conclusion (4:38).

I. Blank, Allan, 1925-. Poems from the Holocaust
2. Blank, Allan, 1925- Introduction, poems, interludes, and conclusion