Some Women’s Voices
Ann Moss, Karen Rosenak
Don Walker's fifth release on Albany Records features songs he has written using the poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, Helen Hunt Jackson, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Harrie Alley, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Walker taught at Sonoma State University, the University of South Florida, and Oregon State University. The music is performed by soprano Ann Moss, who is a graduate of the Longy School and the San Francisco Conservatory. An ardent advocate for contemporary music, she has been responsible for the commissioning and premieres of more than 80 art songs, vocal chamber music, and operatic roles. She is joined by pianist Karen Rosenak, a longtime member of the Empyrean Ensemble, and a founding member of the new music ensemble Earplay.
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| Title | Composer | Performer |
|---|---|---|
| Silent, alone | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Now say, have women worth? | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| O merry bird | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| If ever two were one | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Aurora Hail | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Twas mercy brought me | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| O Thou, Bright jew'l | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| While an intrinsic ardor prompts | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| To win a Susan of my own | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Because the Bee may blameless hum | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Volcanoes be in Sicily | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Now I knew I lost her | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| That she forgot me was the least | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| To be forgot by Thee surpasses memory | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Dear Miss Dickinson | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| My dear friend | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| What portfolios of verse you must have | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Like and like | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Patience is amiable and amiably | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| They are what they are | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Accident'ly in the morning | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Sweet sounds | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| I feel the Spring | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| It moves apart from me | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
| Jealousy, his handmaiden | Don Walker | Ann Moss (soprano); Karen Rosenak (piano) |
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On his 5th album for the Albany label, Don Walker brings us songs he penned using the poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, Helen Hunt Jackson, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Harrie Alley, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. The album leads with poems by Anne Bradstreet, where the sublime keys and expressive singing highlights the articulate wordplay, and poems by Phillis Wheatley continues the elegance with more swift keystrokes amid the dreamy vocals. In the middle, the soaring voice and twinkling keys of Emily Dickinson’s work is quite stirring, while “Dear Miss Dickinson,” a poem by Helen Hunt Jackson, meshes the very progressive piano with powerful, emotive vocal acrobatics. At the end, the playful nature of Harrie Alley’s “I Feel Like Spring” emits a very frisky album highlight that’s filled with rebirth thanks to the dynamic interaction between the vocals and keys. Walker’s songs are performed by the soprano Ann Moss, a graduate of the Longy School and the San Francisco Conservatory, who has been responsible for the commissioning and premieres of more than 80 art songs, vocal chamber music, and operatic roles. The pianist Karen Rosenak, a longtime member of the Empyrean Ensemble, and a founding member of the new music ensemble Earplay is also on hand, and they make for a very radiant and literate body of work.
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