2025 | Loon Tunes Records

Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death

Ryan Hugh Ross, Baritone, Daniel Rieppel, Pianist | 01-09-2025

Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt

Total duration:35 min
01
Verse I (Prologue) - 'The piano tells things to your hands...' (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
02:28
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
02
Verse II ('Play Haydn!') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
01:17
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
03
Verse III ('All the geniuses have their own feel inside the fingers...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyrici
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
01:16
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
04
Verse IV ('But O, the mystery of Haydn...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
02:28
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
05
Verse V ('My Death sits in a straight-back chair...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
03:06
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
06
Verse VI ('Open the windows, Go to the piano...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
02:01
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
07
Verse VII ('You think he wanted Wagner maybe?...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
02:36
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
08
Verse VIII ('Years ago I wrote about Bach...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
01:36
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
09
Verse IX ('Has the angel heard enough G now?...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
02:17
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
10
Verse X ('Play Haydn where two gods have a civil talk...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
01:56
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
11
Verse XI ('For God is the imagination...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
02:40
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
12
Verse XII ('Having put the halves of the universe back in order...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
01:45
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
13
Verse XIII ('When Haydn's own angel of death came calling...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
02:47
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
14
Verse XIV ('The world, though shriveled...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
01:27
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
15
Verse XV ('As music drifts out the open windows...') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
01:35
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
16
Epilogue ('Letting Go of What Cannot Be Held Back') (feat. Martha Helen Schmidt, Composer & Bill Holm, Lyricist)
Ryan Hugh Ross
Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death
03:56
Writer: Bill Holm / Composers: Martha Helen Schmidt
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