The subtitle "The Poet Sings" does not refer specifically to Pablo Neruda or to the Neruda poems set in this collection by the fine small American choir Conspirare. Instead, the designation comes from a series of concerts performed by the group in its home base of Austin, Texas, all of which will be devoted to settings of works by specific poets. As it happens, Neruda, whose poetry Conspirare has touched on before (on Threshold of Night, its Harmonia Mundi debut), makes an ideal subject for this experiment. Eight poems, set ...
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The subtitle "The Poet Sings" does not refer specifically to Pablo Neruda or to the Neruda poems set in this collection by the fine small American choir Conspirare. Instead, the designation comes from a series of concerts performed by the group in its home base of Austin, Texas, all of which will be devoted to settings of works by specific poets. As it happens, Neruda, whose poetry Conspirare has touched on before (on Threshold of Night, its Harmonia Mundi debut), makes an ideal subject for this experiment. Eight poems, set by three different composers, are featured here, and all play to Conspirare's strengths: a feel for text merged with a richness of harmony and a clear, pure tone. But it is the five poems of the Ode to Common Things, set by Cary Ratcliff, which really stand out. Ratcliff's settings match the simplicity of Neruda's images with sparse, almost minimalist constructions (heard here is a chamber version of the work that must be superior to the unspecified original), and the intense...
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