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So Smooth, So Sweet

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Details

Composer
Allen Sapp
Artist
Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
Format
CD
Label
Navona
Released
Jul 11, 2025
Catalog #
NV6737
UPC
808857214188

About

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.

Tracklist 25 tracks

  1. 1 I. So Smooth, So Sweet 02:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. So Smooth, So Sweet
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  2. 2 II. Clear Are Her Eyes 01:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Clear Are Her Eyes
    Duration
    01:14
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  3. 3 III. Her Pretty Feet 01:23
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Her Pretty Feet
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  4. 4 IV. Put Up Your Silks 02:02
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Put Up Your Silks
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  5. 5 V. Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes 03:51
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  6. 6 VI. A Sweet Disorder in the Dress 01:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. A Sweet Disorder in the Dress
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  7. 7 VII. Goe, Perjur'd Man 02:45
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. Goe, Perjur'd Man
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  8. 8 VIII. When I Thy Singing Next Shall Heare 02:40
    Track
    8
    Title
    VIII. When I Thy Singing Next Shall Heare
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  9. 9 I. Ride a Cock-Horse 01:09
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Ride a Cock-Horse
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  10. 10 II. Old Mother Hubbard 01:03
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Old Mother Hubbard
    Duration
    01:03
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  11. 11 III. Little Jack Horner 01:29
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Little Jack Horner
    Duration
    01:29
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  12. 12 IV. Hickory Dickory Dock 00:48
    Track
    12
    Title
    IV. Hickory Dickory Dock
    Duration
    00:48
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  13. 13 No. 1. Anonymous Eponymous 05:09
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 1. Anonymous Eponymous
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  14. 14 No. 2. Riley Set Wryly 06:39
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 2. Riley Set Wryly
    Duration
    06:39
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  15. 15 I. When First Thou Didst Entice to Thee My Heart 01:16
    Track
    15
    Title
    I. When First Thou Didst Entice to Thee My Heart
    Duration
    01:16
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  16. 16 II. I Looked on Thy Furniture So Fine 02:09
    Track
    16
    Title
    II. I Looked on Thy Furniture So Fine
    Duration
    02:09
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  17. 17 III. What Pleasures Could I Want 01:50
    Track
    17
    Title
    III. What Pleasures Could I Want
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  18. 18 IV. At First Thou Gav'st Me Milk and Sweetnesses 01:38
    Track
    18
    Title
    IV. At First Thou Gav'st Me Milk and Sweetnesses
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  19. 19 V. My Flesh Began unto My Soul in Pain 01:55
    Track
    19
    Title
    V. My Flesh Began unto My Soul in Pain
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  20. 20 VI. When I Got Health 02:01
    Track
    20
    Title
    VI. When I Got Health
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  21. 21 VII. Whereas My Birth and Spirit 01:17
    Track
    21
    Title
    VII. Whereas My Birth and Spirit
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  22. 22 VIII. Yet, for I Threaten'd Oft the Siege to Raise 04:00
    Track
    22
    Title
    VIII. Yet, for I Threaten'd Oft the Siege to Raise
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  23. 23 IX. Yet Lest Perchance I Should Too Happie Be 01:45
    Track
    23
    Title
    IX. Yet Lest Perchance I Should Too Happie Be
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  24. 24 X. Now I Am Here 02:53
    Track
    24
    Title
    X. Now I Am Here
    Duration
    02:53
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher
  25. 25 XI. Yet, Though Thou Troublest Me 02:18
    Track
    25
    Title
    XI. Yet, Though Thou Troublest Me
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Allen Sapp
    Performer
    Chelsea Hart Melcher, Paul Melcher