Jenny Wollerman, Michael Houstoun, and Rattle Records proudly present BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT
Oh my beloved
let us dream: it is the hour
the exquisite hour
(Paul Verlaine, L’Heure exquise)
Between darkness and light is where the poet Rabindranath Tagore places ‘the silent meeting of soul with soul... where the infinite prints its kiss on the forehead of the finite’. In his essay (‘The World of Personality’, 1917), Tagore acknowledges the transitory nature of the world and its relational aspect to time and space, heightening my own consciousness of the continuous diurnal cycle that rules our lives and influences our moods: throughout our lives we relentlessly move between the dark and the light.
credits
released May 1, 2015
Jenny Wollerman (soprano)
Michael Houstoun (piano)
Produced by Kenneth Young
Recorded in January 2014 by Steve Garden at the Adam Concert Room, Victoria University of Wellington
Piano tuning by Michael Ashby
Cover artwork ‘Wait’ by New Zealand artist, Sholto Buck
Cover image courtesy of the Wallace Arts Trust
Photo of Jenny Wollerman by Debbie Rawson
Photo of Michael Houstoun by Dean Zillwood
Concert design and source images by Tony Rabbit
Design by UnkleFranc
Printing by Studio Q
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