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Description
GRAMMY Award-winning American soprano Susan Narucki, "one of the great practitioners of contemporary vocal music" (Opera News) presents This Island, a specially curated, unique set of 21 art songs written in the first half of the 20th century, chiefly by women and some receiving their world premiere recordings.
The catalyst for This Island was a line from a collection of letters by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke:
"If you could only be here with me so I could share with you the happiness of these great poems, they would let you realize what we all now need more urgently: that transience is not separation".
The poems Rilke cites are by Belgian Symbolist Emile Verhaeren, whose poetry Susan discovered has been set to music by composers both familiar and virtually unknown, including Nadia Boulanger and her Paris Conservatoire teacher Raoul Pugno, Belgian Irene Fuerison, Dutch Henriette Bosmans and the mysterious Parisian composer Elizabeth Claisse. Susan rounds out the album with songs by American composer and educator Marion Bauer, who studied in Paris and met Boulanger and Pugno, and Dutch composer Henriette Bosmans whose music Susan was familiar with, bringing the project full circle.
"The expressiveness of all these songs, of all these composers, is communicated with considerable skill … thanks to the ability of Narucki and Berman to extract the full, deeply personal elements of both the words and the music" - Infodad
"this album may well prompt a continued exploration of deeply literate composers who need not be lost and have much to offer the current generation of listeners." – Gramophone
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Tracklisting
- 1. Bosmans: Dit eiland
- 2. Bosmans: In den regen
- 3. Bosmans: Teken den hemel in het zand der zee
- 4. Claisse: 4 Melodies: Issue
- 5. Claisse: 4 Melodies: Complainte
- 6. Claisse: 4 Melodies: Philosophie
- 7. Claisse: 4 Melodies: Les Mendiants
- 8. Fuerison: Les Heures claires, Les Heures d'apres-midi, Les Heures du soir Op. 50: I. Les Heures Claires: I. O la splendeur de notre joie
- 9. Fuerison: Les Heures claires, Les Heures d'apres-midi, Les Heures du soir Op. 50: II. Les Heures Claires: XX. Dis moi, ma simple et ma tranquille amie
- 10. Fuerison: Les Heures claires, Les Heures d'apres-midi, Les Heures du soir Op. 50: III. Les Heures d'apres-midi: XXVII. Ardeur des soirs
- 11. Fuerison: Les Heures claires, Les Heures d'apres-midi, Les Heures du soir Op. 50: IV. Les Heures d'apres-midi: XXIX. Vous m'avez dit
- 12. Fuerison: Les Heures claires, Les Heures d'apres-midi, Les Heures du soir Op. 50: V. Les Heures du Soir: XXI. Avec mes vielles mains
- 13. Fuerison: Les Heures claires, Les Heures d'apres-midi, Les Heures du soir Op. 50: VI. Les Heures du Soir: XXVI Lorsque tu fermeras mes yeux
- 14. Boulanger/Pugno: Les Heures Claires: I. Le ciel en nuit s'est deplie
- 15. Boulanger/Pugno: Les Heures Claires: III. Vous m'avez dit
- 16. Boulanger/Pugno: Les Heures Claires: IV. Que tes yeux claires, tes yeux d'ete
- 17. Boulanger/Pugno: Les Heures Claires: VI. Ta bonte
- 18. Bauer: Four Poems, Op. 16: I. Through the Upland Meadows
- 19. Bauer: Four Poems, Op. 16: II. I Love the Night
- 20. Bauer: Four Poems, Op. 16: III. Midsummer Dreams
- 21. Bauer: Four Poems, Op. 16: IV. In the Bosom of the Desert
Disc 1
Side 1
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