Utwory na płycie:

• Bosmans--Dit Eiland
• Bosmans--In den Regen
• Bosmans--Teken den hemel in het zand der zee
• Claisse--"Issue"
• Claisse--Complainte
• Claisse--"Philosophie"
• Claisse--Les Mendiants
• Fuerison--Op. 50, No. 1: Les Heures Claires I
• Fuerison--Op. 50, No. 2: Les Heures Claires XX
• Fuerison--Op. 50, No. 3: Les Heures d'Après-midi XXVII
• Fuerison--Op. 50, No. 4: Les Heures d'Après-midi XXIX
• Fuerison--Op. 50, No. 5: Les Heures du Soir XXI
• Fuerison--Op. 50, No. 6: Les Heures du Soir XXVI
• Boulanger/Pugno--Les Heures Claires: I. Le ciel en nuit s'est dĂ©pliĂ©
• Boulanger/Pugno--Les Heures Claires: III. Vous m'avez dit
• Boulanger/Pugno--Les Heures Claires: IV. Que tes yeux clairs, tes yeux d'Ă©tĂ©...
• Boulanger/Pugno--Les Heures Claires: VI. Ta bontĂ©
• Bauer--Four Poems, Op. 16: 1. Through the Upland Meadows
• Bauer--Four Poems, Op. 16: 2. I Love the Night
• Bauer--Four Poems, Op. 16: 3. Midsummer Dreams
• Bauer--Four Poems, Op. 16: 4. In the Bosom of the Desert

Henriëtte Bosmans:
Dit eiland
In den regen
Teeken den hemel in het zand der zee

Élisabeth Claisse:
4 Mélodies

Irene Fuerison:
Les Heures claires, Les Heures d’apres-midi, Les Heures du soir, Op. 50

Nadia Boulanger/Raoul Pugno:
Les Heures claires, Mvts I, III, IV, VI

Marion Bauer:
Four Poems, Op. 16

GRAMMY® Award-winning American soprano Susan Narucki, "one of the great practitioners of contemporary vocal music" (Opera News) presents This Island, a specially curated, unique set of 21 art songs written in the first half of the 20th century, chiefly by women and some receiving their world premiere recordings.

The catalyst for This Island was a line from a collection of letters by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “… If you could only be here with me so I could share with you the happiness of these great poems, they would let you realize what we all now need more urgently: that transience is not separation …”

The poems Rilke cites are by Belgian Symbolist Emile Verhaeren, whose poetry – Susan discovered – has been set to music by composers both familiar and virtually unknown, including Nadia Boulanger and her Paris Conservatoire teacher Raoul Pugno, Belgian Irene Fuerison, Dutch Henriette Bosmans and the mysterious Parisian composer Elizabeth Claisse. Susan rounds out the album with songs by American composer and educator Marion Bauer, who studied in Paris and met Boulanger and Pugno, and Dutch composer Henriette Bosmans whose music Susan was familiar with, bringing the project full circle.

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Recorded: 3–5 March & 27–29 June 2022, Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego Department of Music, San Diego.