Allen Ginsberg - The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience

With Reverence

Continuing in my 'exam-mode' reviewing, so little actual reviewing, and I am catching moments to work through these in snatches of joyful listening - earnest musical workings of Blake's poems, performed with brisk yet empathetic melodies and due reverence, one visionary poet to another across time, and a few mantras to cross over that temporal divide but spiritual side by side.

Disc 1:
Songs Of Innocence:
1. (a) INTRODUCTION   (b) THE SHEPHERD
2. THE ECHOING GREEN
3. THE LAMB
4. THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
5. THE BLOSSOM
6. THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER
7. (a) THE LITTLE BOY LOST   (b) THE LITTLE BOY FOUND
8. LAUGHING SONG
9. HOLY THURSDAY
10. NIGHT
 
Songs Of Experience:
11. INTRODUCTION
12. NURSES SONG
13. THE SICK ROSE
14. AH! SUN-FLOWER
15. THE GARDEN OF LOVE
16. LONDON
17. THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
18. TO TIRZAH
19. THE GREY MONK
 
      Bonus Tracks:
20. THE GREY MONK (Alternate Take) *
21. BROTHELS OF PARIS *
 
Disc 2:
Blake Songs:
1. A CRADLE SONG
2. THE DIVINE IMAGE *
3. SPRING *
4. NURSES SONG *
5. INFANT JOY
6. A DREAM
7. ON ANOTHER SORROW
8. HOLY THURSDAY *
9. THE FLY
10. THE SCHOOL BOY
11. THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
 
      Mantras:
12. PADMASAMBHAVA *
13. OM NAMAH SHIVAYE *
14. ROGHUPATI RAGHAVA *