Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – Opperman, Laitman & Rosenblum: Works for Voice & Clarinet (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:14 minutes | 882 MB | Genre: Classical
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This collection of songs with voice and clarinet has at its heart Lori Laitman’s profoundly moving cycle I Never Saw Another Butterfly, which sets the words of hope and desolation written by children imprisoned in the Terezín concentration camp. Inspired by this poignant music, Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk and Denise Gainey commissioned a follow-up, The Secret Exit, on poems by Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs that reflect on life and death. Newly arranged for voice and clarinet, Living In The Body is a cycle about love, memory and resilience. The program is completed with Diana Rosenblum’s delightful setting of Winter Rain and Kalmen Opperman’s haunting Un seul.
Tracklist:
1. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – Un seul (Version for Clarinet) (04:09)
2. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – The Secret Exit (Version for Voice & Clarinet): No. 1, What Rose Out of the White Leaves of Your Body (06:47)
3. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – The Secret Exit (Version for Voice & Clarinet): No. 2, When in Early Summer (05:09)
4. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – The Secret Exit (Version for Voice & Clarinet): No. 3, Child (04:37)
5. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version for Voice & Clarinet): No. 1, The Butterfly (04:40)
6. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version for Voice & Clarinet): No. 2, Yes, That’s the Way Things Are (02:12)
7. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version for Voice & Clarinet): No. 3, Birdsong (03:41)
8. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version for Voice & Clarinet): No. 4, The Garden (02:06)
9. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version for Voice & Clarinet): No. 5, Man Proposes, God Disposes (00:52)
10. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version for Voice & Clarinet): No. 6, The Old House (03:13)
11. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – Living in the Body (Version for Voice & Clarinet) [Excerpts]: No. 1, Burning the Woods of My Childhood (03:55)
12. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – Living in the Body (Version for Voice & Clarinet) [Excerpts]: No. 2, Living in the Body (02:32)
13. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – Living in the Body (Version for Voice & Clarinet) [Excerpts]: No. 4, Lost at Table (01:24)
14. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – Living in the Body (Version for Voice & Clarinet) [Excerpts]: No. 5, Bring on the Rain (01:25)
15. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – Living in the Body (Version for Voice & Clarinet) [Excerpts]: No. 6, Crossroads (03:02)
16. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk & Denise Gainey – Winter Rain (03:24)
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