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Earth and Paradise by William Kersten
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fave it Contemporary | Orchestral
6 tracks | 23 minutes
Released Oct 2004
on William Kersten
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:18 A Birthday BUY MP3 02:18 A Birthday "GIFT MP3" 02:18 A Birthday
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 05:55 Echo BUY MP3 05:55 Echo "GIFT MP3" 05:55 Echo
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:56 My soul is awakened BUY MP3 01:56 My soul is awakened "GIFT MP3" 01:56 My soul is awakened
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:33 There is dew BUY MP3 02:33 There is dew "GIFT MP3" 02:33 There is dew
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:30 We do lie beneath the grass BUY MP3 02:30 We do lie beneath the grass "GIFT MP3" 02:30 We do lie beneath the grass
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 08:29 Paradise BUY MP3 08:29 Paradise "GIFT MP3" 08:29 Paradise
Romantic, emotional and mystical songs featuring acclaimed soprano Lori Trustman, based upon the poems of the great Victorian poets Christina Rossetti and Ann Bronte.
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The poems of Earth and Paradise are some of the lesser known works of the Victorians Christina Rossetti and Anne Bronte, as well as the Romantics Thomas Beddoes and Thomas Hood. These are texts which transcend the often-criticized sentimentality of the time and evoke a strong emotion. Rossetti, famous for her elegiac, nearly morbid poetry, nevertheless was capable of the innocent exuberance of "A Birthday." And Anne Bronte, long considered the least of the Bronte's literary talents, demonstates in "My Soul is Awakened" a directness and power of expression never surpassed by her more famous sisters. Kersten's song-cycle is balanced on the one side by the first five depictions of "Earth" - romantic love and loss, nature in both joyous and pastoral images, and death; and on the other side by Rossetti's mysterious and ecstatic dream-vision, represented in the long last song, "Paradise.
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