here/after: songs of lost voices • Pentatone 2013
A double-CD of recent music and songs performed by tenor Stephen Costello, mezzo Joyce DiDonato, baritone Nathan Gunn, soprano Talise Trevigne, with flutist Carol Wincenc, The Alexander String Quartet, and many others.
Featuring Camille Claudel, Pieces of 9/11, Friendly Persuasions, Rise & Fall, A Question of Light, Fury of Light, Soliloquy.
“The haunting cover photo of the dishevelled sculptor Camille Claudel sets the conceptual tone for song-cycles by Jake Heggie that, for all their relative harmonic conservatism, expand what the medium can do to explore uncharted emotional territory.”