Through the Centuries - Songs of Madeleine Dring

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
April 3, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Madeleine Dring
    • PERFORMER
      Kitty Whately, Julius Drake
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 03, 2026
    • UPC
      0095115239025
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 20390
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. 6 Songs: No. 2. Love Is a Sickness

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    2. 6 Songs: No. 1. Echoes

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    3. 7 Songs: No. 7. Encouragements to a Lover

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    4. 6 Songs: No. 5. The Enchantment

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    5. 7 Songs: No. 6. Melisande, the Far Away Princess

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    6. 6 Songs: No. 3. My True Love Hath My Heart

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    7. No. 1. Sister Awake

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    8. No. 2. Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    9. No. 3. I Feed a Flame

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    10. No. 4. The Reconcilement

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    11. 7 Songs: No. 4. Weep You No More Sad Fountains

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    12. No. 6. The Cuckoo (When daisies pied)

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    13. No. 5. Take, O Take Those Lips Away

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    14. No. 4. It was a Lover

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    15. 7 Songs: No. 3. The Faithless Lover (While that the sun with his beams hot)

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    16. No. 1. Holding the Night

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    17. No. 2. Frosty Night

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    18. No. 3. Through the Centuries

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    19. No. 4. Separation

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake

    20. Rosalie: In the Still of the Night (arr. M. Dring for voice and piano)

      Composer: Cole Porter

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Julius Drake


English mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately presents an album of songs by Madeleine Dring. Born in 1923 to a theatrical family, Dring was admitted to the Royal College of Music at the age of nine. She went on to study composition with Herbert Howells, also taking lessons from Gordon Jacob and Ralph Vaughan Williams. She made her career in the theatre, earning a reputation for being able to create catchy numbers at short notice. Sadly, she died at the early age of fifty-three, of a brain aneurysm. The disparate nature of her musical legacy is often attributed to the piecemeal nature of her career; consequently, resurgence of interest in her work has lagged behind that of her contemporaries Elizabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, Grace Williams, and Ruth Gipps. Kitty Whately and Julius Drake have chosen widely from among her output, and end with Dring's version of Cole Porter's 'In the Still of the Night'.