My new compilation album ‘A Breath of Air: American Art Song’ is now available on the Navona Label featuring 6 works for voice and piano, which are (in order of composition) :
In Singing Weather (1996) on poems of Maggie Anderson
Three Songs on Poems of Walt Whitman (2002/2010)
Whalefall (2006) poem by Elizabeth Bradfield
Five Songs on Poems of James Wright (2009)
Three Gems from Emily Dickinson (2011/2022)
Six Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes (2016)
The Anderson, Hughes and Wright Songs were conceived as song cycles, the Dickinson and Whitman as sets of three, and the Bradfield is a single stand-alone song.
Soprano Andrea Chenoweth Wells, baritone Andrew White, and tenor Albert Rudolph Lee, together with collaborative pianists Eric Charnofsky, John Benjamin, and John Etsell perform the music.
Here is a link to listen or purchase all or some of the selections on various platforms:
https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6607/#listen
‘I, Too’ from the Hughes cycle, recorded by Albert R. Lee and John Etsell, was selected by Apple Music for “The Classical Voice” playlist following the album’s release on March 15, 2024 .