Helen Charlston * Poet's Love [New CD] 5/22/12 "Don't Look Down"

"Don't Look Down"

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Helen Charlston * Poet's Love [New CD] 5/22/12 "Don't Look Down"British mezzo soprano and BBC New Generation Artist Helen Charlston and pianist Sholto Kynoch present their take on Robert Schumann's famous song cycle Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love), based on poems by early 19th century German poet Heinrich Heine. The sixteen songs express the birth of love, wonder, fragility in the face of love, emotions and nuances, wounds, sorrow, nostalgia, dreams, tears, betrayal, pain, consolation, and death. The music conveys