Donald Swann's Alphabetaphon

'The comprehensive Donald Swann performance cassette recorded at home on his own Bluthner piano'.



Three cassettes, Albert House Cassettes AHC2-4.

Tape One, Side One:
1. All My Life's a Circle
2. The Amethyst
3. And Now The Night is Over.
4. The Armadillo
5. Baboushka
6. Bird of Heaven
7. Bilbo's Last Song
8. beyond the Mountain
9. Circle Round the Earth
10. Clock of Life
11. Cruel is the Swallow Now
12. Coming and Going Away

Side Two:
1. Casos Remembered
2. Casos Envisaged
3. Christmas Candle
4. Dark Rose of My Heart
5. In The Desert
6. The Devil Wore a Crusifix
7. Don't be Heavy Africa
8. Distant Calling Love
9. Envy
10. Flow Young, Flow True
11. The Future will Soon be Past
12. Footprints
13. The Gas Man Cometh
14. George Fox
15. The Gnu

Tape Two, Side One:
1. Greek Melodies
2. The Hangman's Son
3. Hermann Hesse: Wie Sind Die Tage...
4. Hermann Hesse: Auf Wanderung
5. Hermann Hesse: Bose Zeit
6. The Hippopotamus
7. Ideas in Embryo (Fragments)
a) I Wish I were Dead
b) I like Money
c) Airy Fairy
d) Survival of the Phew
e) I And Me
f) It's a Dog's Life
g) The Country, The Country
h) Anyone Will Do
8. I Seek A Love
9. I Loved you Once
10. I Love You
11. I Met My Love
12. I Sit Beside the Fire
13. Ki-Ki-Ri-Ki-Ki

Tape Two, Side Two:
1. The Ladies
2. Lonely Boy
3. Long Live The Things
4. The Rose
5. Lord, Why Did you Tell Me To Love?
6. Long Lonely Year
7. Message
8. Metaphysical Jigsaw
9. Misalliance
10. My Mum Was A Woman
11. Open Winter
12. The Ostrich
14. Song of Patriotic Prejudice

Tape Three, Side One
1. Peace Prayer
2. Pilgrims Hymn
3. Pillar To Post
4. Red Army Song
5. Red and Green Christmas
6. South Africa - Lord Lift Me Up
7. The Sloth
8. Slow Train
9. Songs from The Heart of ME
10. Space between the Bars
11. Stand Clear For Wonders
12. Stopping By The Woods

Tape Three, Side Two:
1. Tennyson & Rossetti (Victorian Song Cycle)
2. Take Me Back To Byker
3. Tribute to Ingrid Jonker
4. Touching Distant Islands
5. Tomcat
6. Transport of Delight
7. 23rd Psalm in the Hopi Bible
8. 20 Tons of TNT
9. Unless, Until
10. The Way You Choose To
11. Mother Teresa's Prayer
12. The Youth of the Heart