Courtenay Budd, soprano, Sophie Shao, cello, Erika Switzer, piano present songs for soprano, cello, and piano on the themes of death, sensuality, longing, and separation. “Auf dem Strom,” Schubert’s homage to Beethoven, is followed by Aaron Jay Kernis’ “Love Scenes” (poetry by Anna Swir), Eric Moe’s setting of Dorianne Laux’s "Shouldering the Dead", and finally Ned Rorem’s “Last Poems of Wallace Stevens.”

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