Dain,Katharine Forget This Night CD

Forget This Night explores impermanence and desire through songs by Lili Boulanger, Karol Szymanowski, and Grazyna Bacewicz. The heart of the program is Clairi?res dans le ciel, Lili Boulanger's only song cycle and an overlooked masterpiece of the genre, which maps the interior emotional landscape of someone deeply in love-from blissful awe to the devastation of abandonment. The cycle is framed by songs of Szymanowski (a contemporary of Boulanger, who across the continent and against the backdrop of the First World War was also writing music of simmering passion) and Bacewicz, of a generation later, who treats the same themes in songs of fresh directness and aching lyricism. Opening with Boulanger's first extant song, Attente, and ending with the premiere recording of a fragment for solo voice she wrote at the very end of her life, Forget This Night poses a universal human question: how wholeheartedly can we open ourselves to relationships, and moments, that will inevitably end.

1. Boulanger: Clairi?res Dans Le Ciel - IV. Un Po?te Disait 2. Boulanger: Clairi?res Dans Le Ciel - V. Au Pied de Mon Lit 3. Boulanger: Clairi?res Dans Le Ciel - VI. Si Tout Ceci N'est Qu'un Pauvre R?ve 4. Boulanger: Clairi?res Dans Le Ciel - VII. Nous Nous Aimerons Tant 5. Boulanger: Clairi?res Dans Le Ciel - VIII. Vous M'avez Regard? Avec Toute Votre me 6. Boulanger: Clairi?res Dans Le Ciel - IX. Les Lilas Qui Avaient Fleuri 7. Boulanger: Clairi?res Dans Le Ciel - X. Deux Ancolies 8. Boulanger: Clairi?res Dans Le Ciel - XI. Parce Que J'ai Souffert 9. Boulanger: Clairi?res Dans Le Ciel - XII. Je Garde Une Medaille D'elle 10. Boulanger: Clairi?res Dans Le Ciel - XIII. Demain Fera Un An 11. Szymanowski: Trzy Kolysanki, Op. 48 - I. Pochyl Sie Cicho Nad Kolyska 12. Boulanger: J'ai Des Fr?ponds (Sketchbook Fragment, BN Ms 19469)