So Smooth, So Sweet

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Label
Navona
Release Date
July 11, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Allen Sapp
    • PERFORMER
      Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 11, 2025
    • UPC
      808857214188
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NV6737
    • LABEL
      Navona
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Piano
    Works ⌄

    1. I. So Smooth, So Sweet

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    2. II. Clear Are Her Eyes

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    3. III. Her Pretty Feet

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    4. IV. Put Up Your Silks

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    5. V. Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    6. VI. A Sweet Disorder in the Dress

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    7. VII. Goe, Perjur'd Man

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    8. VIII. When I Thy Singing Next Shall Heare

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    9. I. Ride a Cock-Horse

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    10. II. Old Mother Hubbard

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    11. III. Little Jack Horner

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    12. IV. Hickory Dickory Dock

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    13. No. 1. Anonymous Eponymous

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    14. No. 2. Riley Set Wryly

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    15. I. When First Thou Didst Entice to Thee My Heart

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    16. II. I Looked on Thy Furniture So Fine

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    17. III. What Pleasures Could I Want

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    18. IV. At First Thou Gav'st Me Milk and Sweetnesses

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    19. V. My Flesh Began unto My Soul in Pain

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    20. VI. When I Got Health

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    21. VII. Whereas My Birth and Spirit

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    22. VIII. Yet, for I Threaten'd Oft the Siege to Raise

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    23. IX. Yet Lest Perchance I Should Too Happie Be

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    24. X. Now I Am Here

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher

    25. XI. Yet, Though Thou Troublest Me

      Composer: Allen Sapp

      Performer: Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher


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.