‘Katty Darling’

‘Katty Darling’

I’m waiting at your window Katty Darling

And its sweet your morning dreams may be;

I wouldn’t wake you for the world my darling,

For who knows, perhaps you’re dreaming love of me.

Last night just as we parted Katty dear,

I’d something on my mind to say,

But I couldn’t speak, I felt so tender hearted

For I’m going Katty going far away.

Sweet Katty, Katty, Katty darling,

‘Tis no use to stay repining here my darling

So I’m going Katty going far away.

You’re waking O come down Katty Darling

If ye heard yet think me not unkind;

It’s all because I love you that I’m going,

But it is not long I’ll leave my love behind.

You know how night and morning,

You have seen the big drops on my burning brow

What the better am I for it, Katty darling;

I have wasted and yet have nothing now

Sweet Katty, Katty, Katty darling

But it wont be so forever Katty darling

We’ll be happy in the land we’re going to.

1. Score [flipbook version]
2. Score [download as zip file]
3. Song line and guitar chords

A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and The Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, baritone Dr David Greco has worked in the cutting edge of Historically Informed Performance in Europe. He has performed regularly with The Academy of Ancient Music and Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and has appeared as a principle in the world’s most exciting opera festivals such as Festival Aix-en Provence and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

In 2014, he became the first Australian appointed a position with the Sistine Chapel Choir in the Vatican, Rome.

David regularly appears as a soloist with Australia’s finest ensembles and orchestras, such as the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra and most recently with Sydney Symphony in their Helpmann Award-winning concerts of Bach’s cantata for bass, Ich habe genug. In 2017, he was a principle artist with Opera Australia appearing in The Eighth Wonder and The Love of Three Oranges. His recent appearance as Seneca in Pinchgut Opera’s production of The Coronation of Poppea received critical acclaim.

David has an impressive catalogue of solo recordings spread across a variety of labels, including ‘Poems of Love & War’, featuring arias by New Zealand composer Jack Body on the Naxos Label.

In 2018 David released his debut recording with ABC Classics label of Schubert’s Winterreise with keyboardist Erin Helyard. This year he will complete the Schubert song cycle trilogy when he makes the first Australian period-instrument recordings of Die Schöne Müllerin & Schwanengesang on the same label.

2020 will see David release two contrasting recital disks of Bach Cantatas for Bass, one with Australian early music ensemble Van Diemen’s Band, and the second with Dutch based Luthers Bach Ensemble on the European label Brilliant Classics.

David is also an active researcher into historical nineteenth-century voice and has recently completed his PhD at Melbourne University.

Composer, conductor and performer Dan Walker is one of Australia’s most in-demand choral specialists. He has had works commissioned by the Sydney Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Gondwana Choirs and Halcyon.

As a performer, Dan is a member of the professional vocal ensemble ‘The Consort of Melbourne’, Sydney-based Cantillation, and Pinchgut Opera.

He has been a guest performer with The Song Company and was a founding member of early music ensemble ‘The Parson’s Affayre’.

He is a keenly sought-after conductor, appearing as chorus-master for the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Choruses, and is Artistic Director of Choristry and Habeas Chorus, the choir for the Melbourne legal community.

We can’t find a recording of ‘Katty Darling’, but there are many examples of the Bellini tune it uses:

• Vaga Luna: A Performance based on the Synthesis of Human Voice
• Bellini: Vaga Luna - Duo Cum Corde - S. Osbat, tenor - A. Tedesco, guitar
• Vaga Luna
• Vaga luna - Bellini - Accompaniment
• Vaga Luna - Cecilia Bartoli at home