Title: So Smooth, So Sweet Artist: Chelsea Hart Melcher Label: Navona Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 808857214188 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2025-07-11 Number of Discs: 1
SO SMOOTH, SO SWEET is a collection of vocal works from Harvard University composer Allen Sapp spanning from his early compositions in 1952 to later pieces written in the 1980s. The album features song cycles including The Lady and the Lute, Nursery Rhymes, Affliction, and Two Songs, each showcasing Sapp's thoughtful approach to text setting and harmonic color. Influenced by English Renaissance and Romantic-era poetry as well as Sapp's personal experiences, these works range from delicate and lyrical to harmonically rich and expressive. SO SMOOTH, SO SWEET exhibits the finely structured lyricism of Sapp's early works along with the stylistic contrasts of his later compositions.
Tracks: 1.1 Lady and the Lute~I. So Smooth, So Sweet 1.2 Lady and the Lute~II. Clear Are Her Eyes 1.3 Lady and the Lute~III. Her Pretty Feet 1.4 Lady and the Lute~IV. Put up Your Silks 1.5 Lady and the Lute~V. Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes 1.6 Lady and the Lute~VI. A Sweet Disorder in the Dress 1.7 Lady and the Lute~VII. Goe, Perjur'd Man 1.8 Lady and the Lute~VIII. When I They Singing Next Shall Heare 1.9 Nursery Rhymes~I. Ride a Cock-horse 1.10 Nursery Rhymes~II. Old Mother Hubbard 1.11 Nursery Rhymes~III. Little Jack Horner 1.12 Nursery Rhymes~IV. Hickory Dickory Dock 1.13 Two Songs~I. Anonymous Eponymous 1.14 Two Songs~II. Riley Set Wryly 1.15 Affliction~I. When First Thou Didst Entice to Thee My Heart 1.16 Affliction~II. I Looked on Thy Furniture So Fine 1.17 Affliction~III. What Pleasures Could I Want 1.18 Affliction~IV. At First Thou Gav'st Me Milk and Sweetnesses 1.19 Affliction~V. My Flesh Began unto My Soul in Pain 1.20 Affliction~VI. When I Got Health 1.21 Affliction~VII. Whereas My Birth and Spirit 1.22 Affliction~VIII. Yet, for I Threaten'd Oft the Siege to Raise 1.23 Affliction~IX. Yet Lest Perchance I Should Too Happie Be 1.24 Affliction~X. Now I Am Here 1.25 Affliction~XI. Yet, Though Thou Troublest Me
