Description
Recorded in 2013, Unto Thee I Burn, the fourth release to see the light of day arising from the partnership of Presidential Scholar in the Arts soprano Eileen Strempel and Québec native, Eastman School Asst. Prof. Of Chamber Music & Accompanying pianist Sylvie Beaudette features songs settings of E.E.Cummings poetry set to music by North American Women composers.
One of America’s pre-eminent 20th century poets, Cummings was also an accomplished painter; one of his paintings adorns the album’s cover. Ms. Strempel is a noted scholar of song literature, especially those by women composers.
Track Listing
Jocelyn Hagen: love.songs
1. burn
2. your little voice
3. so quite new
4. i love you much(most beautiful darling)
5. i carry your heart
Judith Cloud: from / spill my soul
6. this is the garden: colours come and go
Christine Donkin: Three Cummings Songs
7. love is a spring at which
8. who are you, little i
9. up into the silence the green
10. Libby Larsen: Song
Hilary Tann: Between Sunsets
11. who are you, little i
12. love is the every only god
13. in the rain-
Regina Harris Baiocchi: E. E. Cummings Songbook
14. a little word
15. brain gesture
16. imagine
17. house wind
18. love crumbs
19. i carry your heart with me
