This collection of songs with voice and clarinet has at it's 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 TerezÃn 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 Unseul.

Tracklist:

Un Seul (Version For Clarinet)
The Secret Exit (Version For Voice & Clarinet): No. 1, What Rose Out Of The White Leaves Of Your Body
The Secret Exit (Version For Voice & Clarinet): No. 2, When In Early Summer
The Secret Exit (Version For Voice & Clarinet): No. 3, Child
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version For Voice & Clarinet): No. 1, The Butterfly
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version For Voice & Clarinet): No. 2, Yes, That's The Way Things Are
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version For Voice & Clarinet): No. 3, Birdsong
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version For Voice & Clarinet): No. 4, The Garden
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version For Voice & Clarinet): No. 5, Man Proposes, God Disposes
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Version For Voice & Clarinet): No. 6, The Old House
Living In The Body (Version For Voice & Clarinet) [Excerpts]: No. 1, Burning The Woods Of My Childhood
Living In The Body (Version For Voice & Clarinet) [Excerpts]: No. 2, Living In The Body
Living In The Body (Version For Voice & Clarinet) [Excerpts]: No. 4, Lost At Table
Living In The Body (Version For Voice & Clarinet) [Excerpts]: No. 5, Bring On The Rain
Living In The Body (Version For Voice & Clarinet) [Excerpts]: No. 6, Crossroads
Winter Rain

UPC: 636943989029
Label: Naxos American
Release Date: 7.10.20
Format: CD

Laitman / Hurst-Wajszczuk / Gainey - Secret Exit (CD)