Elegant legato phrases stretch over a dreamy piano accompaniment in this contemporary setting of the ethereal Sara Teasdale poem. Skillful word painting enhances rich images in the text, and carefully...
L'eterea poesia di Sara Teasdale crea una vivida immagine di cielo e luna che trasporta gli ascoltatori in una notte stellata. Le strette triadi di acuti e la colorata tavolozza armonica elevano quest...
Riconoscete i molti doni della vita con questa splendida ambientazione della poesia di Sara Teasdale che ci ricorda di "spendere tutto ciò che avete per la bellezza". Un flusso ritmico scorrevole e al...
The opening lines, 'Listen, I love you. Do not turn your face / Nor touch me. ', reflect the somber feelings encompassing Sara Teasdale's poem. Paired voices initially express contrapuntal melodic lin...
Stephen Chatman's setting of Sara Teasdale's whimsical poem pertaining to a brown-thrush, April, love and kisses, emulates the meaning, strict rhythm, rhyme and strophic structure of the text. The sof...
Sara Teasdale's poem, Oh day of fire and sun, suggests a loud, fast musical setting. The syncopated homo-phonic choral texture, with high tessituras, exudes drama and excitement: it balances the expan...
Sara Teasdale's poem, The Mystery, depicts deep lasting love - 'Your eyes drink of me' and 'We have long been lovers'. It also raises a question - 'Can I ever know you / Or you know me?' Stephen Chatm...
The opening line of Sara Teasdale's poem, After Love, 'There is no magic any more, ' establishes the theme of vanishing love. Stephen Chatman's setting of the poignant text, in the key of E flat major...
This piece is a fast, joyous outburst. The initial lines, 'I am wild, I will sing to the trees' set the jubilant tone. The perpetual motion of the syllabic step-wise vocal lines is punctuated by stacc...