Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss after 60
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Label: Delos
Cat No: DE3548
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 29th June 2018
Contents
Artists
Michael Slattery (tenor)Marnie Breckenridge (soprano)
Dimitri Dover (piano)
Donald Hall (reader)
Works
Mortality Mansions (song cycle)Artists
Michael Slattery (tenor)Marnie Breckenridge (soprano)
Dimitri Dover (piano)
Donald Hall (reader)
About
Hall’s plain-spoken, yet profound poetry reveals his candid perspectives on aging, with its inevitable physical decline, fears, personal losses, and emotional trials. Yet he balances these negative aspects with such persisting joys and pleasures as loving companionship and physical intimacy.
Garfein’s music effectively envelops Hall’s verses like a glove, illuminating their attendant moods, potent emotions, and stark verbal imagery. The album includes an interlude of Hall’s readings of his poetry, and ends with a memorable epilogue: Garfein’s pensive setting of a moving poem by Jane Kenyon, Hall’s late wife.
Tenor Michael Slattery performs the song cycle brilliantly, and soprano Marnie Breckenridge interprets the epilogue to devastating effect. Exceptional piano collaboration comes courtesy of Dimitri Dover.
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