Three 19th Century Songwriters Suite for double bass and piano (ed. Lucas Drew)

About the Compositions

The Victorian drawing-room ballad is a much-derided musical genre – perhaps partly due to the way in which it was successfully and stylishly cultivated by women composers.

Two of the most successful songwriters of this period were Virginia Gabriel whose songs have an appealing Italianate quality and the immensely popular Claribel, pseudonym of Charlotte Alington Barnard. British songwriter Liza Lehman produced more subtle and inventive songs.

Source – Classical Music Encyclopedia, Founding Editor: Stanly Sadie.

Table of Contents

Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830-69)

I. Five o’clock in the morning

Virginia Gabriel (1827-77)

II. Only

Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)

III. The Owl

About Lucas Drew

Lucas Drew, after a distinguished career of more than 40 years of teaching and performing is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami Frost School of Music and Principal Double Bass Emeritus of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. Also, he is Founder/Artistic Director Emeritus of the Highlands - Cashiers (NC) Chamber Music Festival (1982-1999).

Dr. Drew studied double bass with Allen Warner, Dmitri Shmuklovsky, and Edward Krolick and later, coached with Frederick Zimmermann. He is a graduate of the University of Miami, University of Illinois, and Florida State University. Many of his former students are active in the music profession.