Moon Loves Its Light

NOMINEE: 2017 ECMA for Classical Recording of the Year

Soprano Allison Angelo’s debut CD recording, Moon Loves Its Light, celebrates the moon, dreams and the night.

A collection of French mélodies and English Canadian art songs in which masterpieces by Debussy, Poulenc, Faure, and Hahn are intermingled with treasures by Canadian greats Morawetz and Somers, along with contemporary voices like Lloyd Burritt and Ian Bent, who’s song, Old Moon, was specially commissioned for the CD. The CD title is from Marilyn Lerch’s collection of poetry, Moon Loves Its Light, (Moraine House, 2004).

Allison Angelo, soprano
Simon Docking, piano

Track Listing:

Moon

Clair de lune – Claude Debussy/Paul Verlaine
We are full-moon loved – Lloyd Burritt/Marilyn Lerch
Look Down Fair Moon – Harry Somers/Walt Whitman

Night

L’heure exquise – Reynaldo Hahn/Paul Verlaine
A Clear Midnight – Harry Somers/Walt Whitman
Fantoches – Claude Debussy/Paul Verlaine
Fisherwoman I feel the lilt and dip – Lloyd Burritt/Marilyn Lerch
Dans la nuit – Reynaldo Hahn/Jean Moréas
After the Dazzle of Day – Harry Somers/Walt Whitman
Giant Lily of the Amazon – Lloyd Burritt/Marilyn Lerch

Dreams

La reine de coeur – Francis Poulenc/Maurice Carême
Your voice enters my dream – Lloyd Burritt/Marilyn Lerch
Apparition – Claude Debussy/Stéphane Mallarmé
Lullaby – Patrick Cardy
Land of Dreams – Oscar Morawetz/William Blake

Moon

Lune d’avril – Francis Poulenc/Maurice Carême
Old Moon – Ian Bent/Roger Field
Clair de lune – Gabriel Fauré/Paul Verlaine