Love's Eternity
Composer: Gary Carpenter
Catalogue no: CM079 | ISMN M-57034-079-8
Five Songs of E. Barrett Browning
Mezzo Soprano and Piano
Love
from Sonnets from the Portuguese XIV
Grief
Death
from Life and Love
Transfiguration
from Sonnets from the Portuguese XLIV
Reunion
from Heine part V
Love’s Eternity is a quite wonderful set of songs that owe in one way or another to Robert Browning and Schumann and to Heinrich Heine, and that really touch the heart and send shivers of appreciation down the listener’s spine. Carpenter has produced something special here, deeply affecting settings (as he says, as much to do with Death as the cited Love). Sometimes, listening to music can be so devastating on the emotions. There is beauty and solace here.
Colin Anderson - classicalsource.com
SET
Performers: Kathryn Rudge (mezzo soprano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: Nimbus Alliance
Catalogue no: NI 6380
Love
This, and the following audio tracks are performed by Fiona Kimm (Mezzo) and Gary Carpenter (piano)
Grief
Death
Transfiguration
Reunion
