One disk I listen to quite often is “Beloved That Pilgrimage”, which features baritone Sanford Sylvan singing Barber’s “Hermit Songs” (including a wonderful version of “The Monk and His Cat”... the Auden translation). I found a free link as follows:
<A HREF="http://www.rhapsody.com/sanfordsylvan/belovedthatpilgrimage?tstart=0" TARGET=_blank>http://www.rhapsody.com/sanfordsylvan/belovedthatpilgrimage?tstart=0
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(though you have to sign up at the site apparently).
Also on the disk are “Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson” (Copland) and also “Eight Epitaphs”. It’s a gud ‘un to chop vegetables along to... or whatever.
[This message has been edited by B.J. Preston (edited October 15, 2007).]