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Recordings
An
extensive discography of American art song appears below.
Please
send information about other recordings of American art song
to info@americanartsong.org
and I will include them in the list.
Recordings,
Artists, and Contents
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My selection of recordings at this time
focuses on lesser know composers. You will find only a
smattering of the recordings of Ives and Barber songs that are
widely available. My inclusion of a CD here in no way
represents an endorsement. However, there are a few CDs, mostly
compilations, that I do note as "Recommended" because of the
high quality of the songs selected and/or the performances.
Soon, I will have these recordings nicely organized, with links from
composers to recordings. For now, you can enjoy browsing.
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Love's
Secret and other Songs by American Composers,
Vox Music
Group, CDX 5129, 1996
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Recommended
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Artists
Eleanor
Steber, soprano
Mildred
Miller, mezzo-soprano
Donald
Gramm, bass-baritone
John
McCollum, tenor
Edwin
Biltcliffe, piano
Robert
Cumming, piano
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Composers
Ernst Bacon, Samuel Barber, Jack
Beeson, William Bergsma, Paul Bowles, John Alden Carpenter, Theodore
Chanler, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, David Diamond, John Edmunds, Irving
Fine, William Flanagan, Charlies T. Griffes, John Gruen, Charles Ives,
John La Montaine, Otto Luening, Edward MacDowell, Douglas Moore, Vincent
Persichetti, Daniel Pinkham, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Robert Ward, Ben
Weber
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Fond Affection: Songs of
Ernst Bacon
Composers Recordings, Inc., CD 890, 2002
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Recommended
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Artists
Janet
Brown, soprano
Herbert
Burtis, piano
William
Sharp, baritone
Amy
Burton, soprano
John
Musto, piano
Ronald
Copes, violin
Alan
Feinberg, piano
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Other Works
Sonata
for Violin and Piano
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Paul Sperry Sings Romantic
American Songs, Albany, 1995
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Recommended
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Artists
Paul Sperry, tenor
Irma Vallecillo, piano
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Composers
Paul Bowles,
Theodore Chanler,
Arthur Farwell, Richard Hundley,
Virgil Thomson
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American Cycles and
Sets
Albany, 1995 |
Recommended
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Artists
Paul Sperry, tenor
Irma Vallecillo, piano
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Composers
Robert Beaser, Christopher Berg, Louis Gruenberg, Larry
Alan Smith, Louise Talma, Richard Wilson |
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Paul Sperry Sings An
American Sampler
Albany, 1995 |
Recommended
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Artists
Paul Sperry, tenor
Irma Vallecillo, piano
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Composers
Samuel
Barber, Robert Beaser, William Billings, William Bolcom,
Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell,
Celius Dougherty, John Duke, William Flanagan, Stephen Foster, Charles
Tomlinson Griffes, Morten Lauridsen, John Musto, Ned Rorem, Louise Talma,
William Schuman, Warren M. Swenson, Hugo Weisgall,
Ben Weber,
Kurt Weill,
Maury Yeston |
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She Walks in Beauty, Parnassus Records, PACD96-025, 1998
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Recommended
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Artists
Danielle
Woerner, soprano
Robert Starer, piano
Sylvia
Buccelli, piano
Patricia
Spencer & Marcia Gates, flute
Jean
Kopperud, clarinet
Susan
Seligman, cello
Hudson
Vally Philharmonic String Quartet
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Composers
Otto Luening, Robert Starer
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Songs of Otto Luening, Composers Recordings, Inc.,
DC840, 2000
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Recommended
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Artists
Judith
Betina, soprano
James Goldsworthy, piano
Susan
Palm-Nidel, flute
NOTE: If you've never heard the songs of Otto Luening, you will be
amazed at their beauty and Romanticism.
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But Yesterday Is
Not Today:
The American Art Song 1927-1972
New World Records, 1996 |
Recommended
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Artists
Donald Gramm, Donald Hassard, Robert Helps, Bethany
Beardslee |
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Composers
Samuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Theodore Chanler, Israel
Citkowitz, Aaron Copland |
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Voices of the Valley
Albany, 2006 |
Recommended
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Artists
Danielle Woerner, soprano,
James Fitzwilliam,
piano, Barbara Pickhardt, piano, Susan Seligman, cello,
Peter Schickele, piano, Marcia Gates, flute, Harry
Ditzel, horn
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Composers
Robert Baksa, James
Fitzwilliam, Aurora Northland, Peter Schickele, Alan
Shulman, Robert Starer |
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Carolyn
Heafner Sings American Songs, Composers Recordings, Inc., CD 854, 2000
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Artists
Carolyn
Heafner, soprano
Dixie
Ross Neill, piano
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Composers
Ernst Bacon, Amy Beach, Jack Beeson, Lee
Hoiby, Jay Pouhe,
Hugo Weisgall
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The
Poetess Sings, Musicians Showcase, MS 1085, 2002
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Artists
Carolyn
Heafner, soprano
Shirley Ann Seguin, piano
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Composers
Ernst Bacon, Robert Baksa, Gordon
Binkerd, Aaron Copland, John Duke, Lee Hoiby, Otto Luening, William Roy
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Americans
in Paris, Aca Digital - #20073, 2001
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Artists
Hillary
Hight Daws, soprano
Barbara Efird, piano
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Composers
Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Louis
Campbell-Tipton, Henry Hadley, Ethel Glenn Hier, Charles Ives, Morten
Lauridsen, Charles Martin Loeffler, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Kurt Weill
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All My Heart: Deborah Voight
Sings American Songs, Angel Recordings, 2005
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Artists
Deborah Voight, soprano
Brian Ziegler, piano
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Composers
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach,
Leonard Bernstein,
Charles Tomlinson Griffes,
Charles Ives,
Ben Moore
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Paul Sperry Sings
Songs of an Innocent Age, Albany, 1996
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Artists
Paul Sperry, tenor
Irma Vallecillo, piano
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Composers
Frederic Ayres,
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Carrie Jacobs Bond,
Dudley Buck, Charles
Wakefield Cadman, John Alden Carpenter, Henry Clough-Leither,
Arthur Foote, Henry Gilbert, Charles T. Griffes, Charles Ives, Harvey
Worthington Loomis, Edward MacDowell, Ethelbert Nevin, John Knowles
Paine, John Philip Sousa,
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New American Song Cycles
Albany, 2004 |
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Artists
Daron Hagen, Margo Garrett, Paul Moravec, Tom Cipullo,
Paul Sperry |
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Composers
Tom Cipullo, Daron Hagen, Libby Larsen, Paul
Moravec |
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Paulus: Songs
Albany, 1995 |
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Artists
Håkan Hagegård, Irma Vallecillo-Gray, Paul Schoenfield,
Ruth Jacobson, Paul Sperry |
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Composer
Stephen Harrison Paulus |
American Songbook - The
American Music Collection, Vol. III
Koch, 1996
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Artists
Robert Honeysucker
William Sharp
Detroit Chamber Winds
Susanne Mentzer
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Composers
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, John J. Becker, Leonard
Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, William Bolcom, Aaron Copland, Charles
Ives,
Betty Jackson King,
Libby Larsen, Kurt Weill
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Fields of Wonder: Songs &
Spirituals of Robert Owens
Koch,
1996 |
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Artists
Darryl Taylor, tenor
Robert Owens, piano |
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Composers
Robert Owens |
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Songs of America
Koch,
1996 |
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Artists
Jan de Gaetani, mezzo
soprano
Gilbert Kalish, piano |
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Composers
Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Warren Benson,
William Bolcom, Carrie Jacobs Bond,
Charles Wakefield Cadman, John Cage, Elliott
Carter, Rebecca Clark,
George Crumb, Mario Davidovsky, Irving Fine,
Stephen Foster, Charles Ives, Sergius Kagen,
Aaron Jay Kernis,
Ned Rorem,
William Schuman, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Stanley
Walden |
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William Sharp, baritone
New World Records, 1992 |
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Artists
William Sharp, baritone
Steven Blier, piano |
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Composers
Paul Bowles, Lee Hoiby, Richard Hundley, Eric
Klein, John Musto, Virgil Thomson |
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Heartbeats: New Songs from Minnesota for the AIDS Quilt
Songbook
Innova, 1995 |
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Artists
Bradley Greenwald, James Bohn, William Parker, Douglas
Shambo, Timothy J. Paradise |
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Composers
Carol Barnett, William Bolcom, Craig Carnahan, Chris
DeBlasio, Cary John Franklin, John Harris Harbison,
Stephen Houtz,
Carolyn Jennings, Daniel Kallman, Aaron Jay Kernis,
Libby Larsen, John Musto, David John Olsen , Janika
Vandervelde, Richard Wilson
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Music from
Luzerne
Albany, 2000 |
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Artists
Theresa
Treadway Lloyd, voice; Bert Phillips, cello; Toby
Blumenthal, piano
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Composers
Seymour Barab, William Bolcom, Libby Larsen,
Andre Previn |
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Song of America: Music
from the Library of Congress
Koch,
1996 |
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Artists
Thomas
Hampson, Tony Trischka, Molly Mason, Michael Parloff,
Jay Ungar
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Composers
Leonard Bernstein, Harry T. (Henry) Burleigh,
Walter Damrosch, John Woods Duke, Stephen Foster,
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Erich Korngold, Charles
Naginski, Ned Rorem,
Elinor Remick Warren, Kurt Weill, Haydn Wood |
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To the Soul: Thomas
Hampson sings the poetry of Walt Whitman
EMI
Classics, 2006
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Artists
Thomas
Hampson, baritone
Craig Rutenberg, piano |
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Composers
Ernst Bacon,
Leonard Bernstein,
Frank Bridge, H. T. Burleigh,
Gerald Busby, Charles Ives, Philip Dalmas, Charles
Naginski, William Neidlinger, Ned Rorem, Robert
Strassburg, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Craig Urquhart,
Harry Warren, Kurt Weill, |
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I
Hear America Singing
Koch,
1996 |
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Artists
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Malcolm Martineau, piano
Wolfram Rieger, piano
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Composers
Ernst Bacon, Jean Berger, Leonard
Bernstein, Paul Bowles, Henry Thacker Burleigh, ,
Stephen Foster, Ernest Gold, Charles Tomlinson Griffes,
Richard Hageman, Sergius Kagen, Erich Korngold, Charles
Martin Loeffler, Edward Macdowell, Charles Naginski,
John Jacob Niles, Ned Rorem, William Grant Still, Hugo
David Weisgall
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Music of Peter
Lieberson
Bridge Records, 2006 |
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Artists
Lorraine Hunt-Liberson, Peter Serkin |
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Composers
Peter
Lieberson |
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American Art Song Today -- Alive!
Josara
Records, 1998 |
Recommended
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Artists
Anne
Marie Church, soprano, Linda Sweetman-Water, piano |
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Composers
Emma
Lou Diemer, Daron Hagen, Richard Lane, Libby Larsen,
John Musto, Paul Suits, Richard Pearson Thomas, Joseph
Turrin |
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Fabulous Femmes
Centaur Records, 2000 |
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Artists
Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Jan Roberts-Haydon, flute;
Sylvie Beaudette, piano |
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Composers
Margaret Garwood, Libby Larsen, Louise Talma |
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Love's Seasons
MSR
Classics, 2004 |
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Artists
Sandra
McClain, Margo Garrett
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Composers
Mary
Howe, Robert Ward |
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An Old
Song Re-Sung: American Concert Songs
Koch,
1996 |
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Artists
Thomas
Hampson, baritone, Armen Guzelimian, piano |
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Composers
Charles Wakefield Cadman, Ernest Charles, Walter
Damrosch, John Duke, Stephen Foster, Charles T. Griffes,
Vittorio Giannini, Richard Hageman, Benjamin Hanby, May
Harrison, Erich Korngold, Andre Messager, John Sacco,
Sigmund Rochberg, Oley Speaks, Haydn Wood |
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An Old
Song Resung
New World Records, 1995 |
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Artists
William
Parker, baritone, Dalton Baldwin, piano, William Huckaby,
piano, Ani Kavafian, violin |
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Composers
Charles Wakefield Cadman, Arthur Farwell, Charles
Tomlinson Griffes, and Charles Ives |
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Lieder of Ives, Griffes,
MacDowell
Elektrac/Wea, 1992 |
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Artists
Thomas
Hampson, baritone, Armen Guzelimian, piano |
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Composers
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Charles Ives, Edward
MacDowell |
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Songs We Forgot to
Remember
Koch,
1996 |
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Artists
John
Aler, Grant Gershon
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Composers
Carrie Jacobs Bond, Ernest Charles, Idabelle Firestone,
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Richard Hageman, Mana-Zucca,
Ethelbert Nevin, Oscar Rasbach |
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My Native Land: A
Collection of American Songs
Elektra/Wea, 1997 |
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Artists
Jennifer Larmore,
mezzosoprano, Antoine Palloc, piano |
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Composers
Lisa Aborn, Robert Abramson, Samuel Barber, Aaron
Copland, John Woods Duke, Jake Heggie,
Lee
Hoiby, Richard Hundley, Charles Ives, Charles
Naginski,
John
Jacob Niles, |
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Marilyn
Horne: I Will Breathe a Mountain
RCA,
1998 |
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Artists
Marilyn Horne,
mezzosoprano, Martin Katz, piano |
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Composers
Samuel
Barber, William Bolcom, Leonard Bernstein |
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Permit Me Voyage: Songs
by American Composers
Koch,
1996 |
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Artists
Mary
Ann Hart, mezzosoprano,
Dennis Helmrich, piano |
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Composers
Dominick Argento, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, William
Flanagan, Ricky Ian Gordon, Richard Hundley, Gary
Schocker |
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