Michael William Balfe

(Dublino 15/5/1808, Rowney Abbey, Herts 20/10/1870)

TESTI DEI LIEDER

"Annabel Lee"
di Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

"I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls"
di Alfred Bunn (1796?-1860)
(opus formed 1843, from the opera The Bohemian Girl)

"The Arrow and the Song"
da "I shot an Arrow into the air"
di Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

"The Village Blacksmith"
da "Under a spreading chestnut-tree"
di Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
(opus voice, piano)