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The Esoterics : Sonettaria
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The triumph of iambic pentameter
Genre: Classical: Choral Music
Release Date: 2006
Sonettaria
The Esoterics
Record Label: Terpsichore
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1. O notte 4:34 + MP3 $0.99
2. Three nocturnes - Sonnet to sleep 2:47 + MP3 $0.99
3. Three nocturnes - To the moon 0:57 + MP3 $0.99
4. Three nocturnes - So we'll go no more a-roving 1:25 + MP3 $0.99
5. Notturno in Weiss - Die steinerne Familie 1:09 + MP3 $0.99
6. Notturno in Weiss - In totenstiller Nacht 5:11 + MP3 $0.99
7. Notturno in Weiss - Die Lilie 1:54 + MP3 $0.99
8. I dream of you to wake 3:15 + MP3 $0.99
9. Youth gone, and beauty 5:08 + MP3 $0.99
10. Sonetto XXXV 5:24 + MP3 $0.99
11. Sonetto CCXCII 4:38 + MP3 $0.99
12. Time 4:00 + MP3 $0.99
13. Sonnet LXIV 3:36 + MP3 $0.99
14. Three rose madrigals - O how much more 3:17 + MP3 $0.99
15. Three rose madrigals - The forward violet thus I did chide 1:30 + MP3 $0.99
16. Three rose madrigals - O, never say that I was false of heart 2:58 + MP3 $0.99
17. The soul's expression 2:36 + MP3 $0.99
18. Perplexed music 4:16 + MP3 $0.99
19. Etternalmente vive 4:31 + MP3 $0.99
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Album Notes

The first of two discs funded by a grant from the NEA, The Esoterics' sixth CD, SONETTARIA, presents fourteen settings of sonnets: a choral "sonnet of sonnets."

Recorded after the SONETTO concert series in May 2006, this CD features six world premiere choral settings of Michelangelo, Rossetti, and Browning by Eric Banks, Lorri Kristin Froggét, and John Muehleisen.

In addition, The Esoterics sings two sonnets of Petrarch by Lars John Werle, and five sonnets of Shakespeare by Paul Crabtree, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, and Dominick Argento.

To complete this disc, the ensemble performs Three nocturnes by Carlos Chávez, and is joined by guest harpists Alexis Odell and Melissa Walsh to present Robert Moran's Notturno in Weiss.

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