Heard here in its world premiere recording, 'The Parting' is a daring opera by award-winning composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Mason that explores the life and art of Miklos Radnoti, one of the most important poetic witnesses to the Holocaust, and one of its tragic victims. Radnoti's poems express emotions from love and enchantment to absolute loss, and 'The Parting' includes texts found in his jacket pocket after his death. This opera is a profound meditation on what it is about art that outlives us, that enables us to be creative even in the face of unimaginable adversity, and reminds us to guard against hatred and to celebrate what makes us human.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.I Labor So Hard, Searching This Age We're In...

Various Performers

2.You Already Know What You Think

Various Performers

3.This Is the Third Time They've Called Me Up

Various Performers

4.How Will You Use the Time

Various Performers

5.In Your Two Arms Back and Forth

Various Performers

6.I Love That Poem

Various Performers

7.Her Letters Come to Me

Various Performers

8.My Love, the Summer Passes

Various Performers

9.I Can No Longer Either Die Or Live Without You

Various Performers

10.I Toppled Next to Him, His Body Flipped, Stiff Already

Various Performers

11.I Lived On Earth in an Era Such As This

Various Performers

12.I've Grown to Hate the World, a Sin

Various Performers

13.The Moon Sways

Various Performers

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