Product Description
Love songs by gay composers and arrangers
Named for the acient Greek word for ‘nightingale,’ ÆDONIS is The Esoterics’ fledgling men’s ensemble. Their debut CD entitled AMORE features compositions by Franz Schubert, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Samuel Barber.
Also on this disc are Love letters, four Tatar folksongs arranged by Bern Herbolsheimer, Ngam sang duan, a Thai song arranged by Steven Sametz, as well as two new works by Donald Skirvin: Songs of the nightingale, and Yet, love endures, a cycle of four poems by Hart Crane.
The final work of this disc is Eric Banks’ cycle of seven sonnets that Michelangelo composed for his lover, Tomasso de’ Cavalieri, entitled Sonneti d’amore.
Track listing
| 1 | Deux chansons – Calme des nuits (1882) | Camille Saint-Saëns |
| 2 | Songs of the nightingale (2004) | Donald Skirvin |
| 3 | The sweet nightingale (2006) | arr. Eric Banks |
| Love letters (2005) | arr. Bern Herbolsheimer | |
| 4 | Gold and silver | |
| 5 | Red or coral | |
| 6 | White | |
| 7 | Rosy | |
| 8 | Solovushko (1889) | Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| 9 | Ngam sang duan (2000) | arr. Steven Sametz |
| 10 | Mondenschein (1826) | Franz Schubert |
| 11 | To be sung on the water (1968) | Samuel Barber |
| Yet, love endures (2005) | Donald Skirvin | |
| 12 | And bees of paradise | |
| 13 | Echoes | |
| 14 | A stolen hour | |
| 15 | Worn more bright | |
| 16 | And both shall row (2001) | arr. Eric Banks |
| Sonetti d’amore (2006) | Eric Banks | |
| 17 | Quanta dolcezza | |
| 18 | Ovunche tu ti sia | |
| 19 | Un dolce lume | |
| 20 | Nodo d’amore | |
| 21 | Quanta dolcezza (Ritornello) | |
| 22 | E vie più là | |
| 23 | Non ti contenti | |
| 24 | O felice quel dì | |
| 25 | Quanta dolcezza (Ritornello) |
