Hermit songs
By: Samuel Barber. String quartet, no. 1 / Alexei Haieff
Contributors: Price, Leontyne; Haieff, Alexei, 1914-1994; Library of Congress. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation; Juilliard String Quartet
Series: Modern American music series; Modern American music series
Publisher: Columbia Masterworks
Published: 1955
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Subjects: Songs (High voice) with piano; Song cycles; String quartets
Notes: First side commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress and first performed there by the same artists, Oct. 30, 1953; second side commissioned by the Ojai Festival ltd., through the Huntington Hartford Foundation, in 1949.

Recorded under the supervision of the composer.

Program notes and texts in English on container.

Leontyne Price, soprano (1st side) ; Samuel Barber, piano (1st side) ; Juilliard String Quartet (R. Mann, R. Koff, violin ; R. Hillyer, viola ; A. Winograd, cello) (2nd side).

Sung in English.
Table of contents: title: At Saint Patrick's purgatory; title: Church bell at night; title: Saint Ita's vision; title: The heavenly banquet; title: The crucifixion; title: Sea-snatch; title: Promiscuity; title: The monk and his cat; title: The praises of God; title: The desire for hermitage.