There are also some charming settings of love poems by the Lebanese writer Etel Adnan, in which Valerie Anderson's ethereal high soprano floats easily into the sound of a clarinet.
To conclude, Ms. DiDonato, who is dazzling Metropolitan Opera audiences in the Baroque pastiche "The Enchanted Island," was joined by Mr. Jones for a charming account of Reynaldo Hahn's "Venezia," alluring settings of love poems in Venetian dialect.
The shortcomings of the playing were most apparent in the opening work on Tuesday, Stravinsky's ballet score "Pulcinella," performed complete, including the arias and ensembles for three vocal soloists, settings of Italian love poems.
The haunting continued in Mansurian's "Canti Paralleli," settings of Armenian love poetry for soprano, piano and strings written in memory of his wife, and Romance for Violin and Strings.
He suffered well-publicized attacks from the conservative music theorist Giovanni Maria Artusi, who castigated what he considered Monteverdi's radical harmonic language in, among other works, that Fourth Book of Madrigals, those amazing five-part vocal settings of poems of love, yearning and romantic despair.
Mr. Rosenbaum closed his program with Elliott Schwartz's vibrant and at times appealingly cacophonous "Two Watterson Poems" (2004), with light percussion accompaniment, and Steven R. Gerber's "Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought" (2003-4), a set of five richly harmonized settings of Shakespeare sonnets about love and death (mostly death).
And intimacy is a defining quality of this collection of 46 lieder, settings of anonymous Tuscan and Venetian love poems adapted into German by Paul Heyse.
Many of her songs are settings of Latin American poems about love, dignity and aspiration, with folklike melodies and a compassionate tone.
Perhaps this is because its ultimate subject, across a colourful span of geographies and cultural settings, is love.
He died young of AIDs, but this piece, four fine settings of Elizabethan poems touching on homosexual love and imminent death, has an innate lightness, less a raging against the dying of the light than a sweet image of sunset.
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