{"product_id":"dsl92286-songs-of-orpheus","title":"Songs of Orpheus","description":"At once sensual and existential, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSongs of Orpheus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of songs composed across 125 years that meditates on nature and nostalgia, sex and love, the ephemerality of the human spirit, and the eternal, transformative power of art.\r\n\r\nThese song cycles of Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, George Crumb, and Robert Spano coalesce into a testament to the limitless potency and fragility of love—both its resplendent joys and its tender sorrows. Despite love’s transience and riskiness, the album compels us to ruminate on Rilke’s witticism that “for one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks…’’\r\n\r\nEach of the cycles presents us with existential questions of life and death, love and loss, but the album is structured in couplets. Debussy and Spano draw upon Ancient Greece, Grieg and Crumb draw upon enchantments of nature, the temporality of love, life, and memory. Claude Debussy’s ethereal Chansons de Bilitis (1899) evokes a lusty, Grecian fever dream where the tumescence of love and desire comes to the fore.\r\n\r\nRobert Spano’s Sonnets to Orpheus (2020) lends voice to Rilke’s enigmatic eponymous poetry. Spano’s setting of the songs—the intimate conversation between piano and soprano—“draws one voice out of two separate strings.” Meanwhile, George Crumb’s Three Early Songs (1947) emerge as whispered secrets, darkly-hued odes to impermanent nature—night, a flower, and wind. The songs lead us to ponder the difference between the actual and the seeming.\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eKelley O’Connor, Mezzo-Soprano\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Spano, Pianist\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Sono Luminus","offers":[{"title":"WAV 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741935677764,"sku":"DSL92286-3","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741935710532,"sku":"DSL92286-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741935743300,"sku":"DSL92286-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741935776068,"sku":"DSL92286-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57343635521860,"sku":"DSL92286-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/DSL92286.jpg?v=1778505982","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/dsl92286-songs-of-orpheus","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}