Denise Gainey

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
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

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.

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