Bowles: Three

Mary Carewe is one of the UK’s most accomplished and versatile singers and regularly performs this repertoire throughout the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA.

Mary includes here some well-known standards alongside less recorded and quirky songs by William Bolcom, Alexander Zemlinsky and Stefan Wolpe, and includes a first recording of Aria by Australian composer Carl Vine.

“Mary Carewe is a chansonnière to be watched, with a clean clear voice, commanding, intimate and musically intelligent” The Independent

“…the formidable cabaret singer Mary Carewe” The Guardian

"Since I first started going to song recitals, I wondered why I heard so few American songs," says Paul Sperry in the booklet notes. "Was it that there weren't many good ones? I doubted it, and I have subsequently learned that I was right. While researching little known American songs for three Bicentennial celebration recitals, I discovered that songwriting has always attracted American composers and that they have given us a large and fascinating repertory encompassing every conceivable style. The only difficulty I face as a performer is to choose which ones to sing, or, in this case, to record. I have chosen these five composers because they are all "Romantics:" they favor tonal harmonies, attractive melodies, and a close relationship between words and music; they seek to convey the emotional content of the poetry in musical terms. But more specifically, I chose them because I love their songs."