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.