Tony Arnold, soprano; William Sharp, baritone; Seth Knopp, piano. Libretto by Eric Nathan and Mark Campbell, adapted from the writings of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Some Favored Nook - Part I: I - To tell me what is true?; II - The nearest dream recedes unrealized; III - Could you tell me how to grow?; IV - They shut me up in Prose; V - My barefoot rank is better. Some Favored Nook - Part II: VI - To see if we were growing; VII - War feels to me an oblique place; VIII - There suddenly arose; IX - Emancipation; X - All sounds ceased; XI - There came a wind like a bugle; XII - Attending to the wounded; XIII - That shamed the nation. Some Favored Nook - Part III: XIV - These are my introduction; XV - My Wars are laid away in Books / No Prisoner be.
Doreen Taylor-Claxton, soprano; Lara Deutsch, flute; Louis Trépanier, guitar. Text by Susan McMaster. Seven songs: I - The Lake; II - Red Leaves; III - So faint the geese this fall; IV - Pavane; V - Old Photographs; VI - False Spring; VII - Return.
Eric Ferring, tenor; Madeline Slettedahl, piano. French-language poems by the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Five songs: I - Puisque tout passe; II - Un cygne; III - Tombeau dans un parc; IV - Le clocher chante; V - Départ.
