Robert Heppener
1996 Four Songs of Ezra Pound Donemus/CV 48Susan Narucki, soprano
Sepp Grotenhuis, piano
In their lyrical passion, the poems in this song cycle - taken from Pound’s Ripostes - point far ahead of their time (1912) to ours: a time of great crowding, overpopulation and stress. A time in which one not only desires with a certain sense of nostalgia, but also, with a certain sense of rebelliousness, yearns for space, rest and solitude. Heppener’s music is marked by keen expressivity and expansiveness in the vocal line, and a great sense of spaciousness.
