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Track(s) taken from CDH55156

The Little Silver Ring

composer
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
author of text
Rosemond Gérard (1871-1953)
translator of text
Anonymous - traditional
Unknown translator

Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)
Recording details: June 1995
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 1995
Total duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds

Cover artwork: Poetry. Wiiliam Affleck (1868-1943)
 

A touching song, originally entitled L’anneau d’argent, by the French woman composer Cécile Chaminade. The Little Silver Ring achieved its greatest fame in association with John McCormack who recorded it in 1927.

from notes by Robert White © 1995

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