Eastern Currents
Ensemble 365
Envisioned as a journey through contemporary Asian music, Eastern Currents features chamber works written in the past forty years by composers from Azerbaijan, China, India, Iran, Japan and Taiwan.
The vocal music of marga richter
This album includes two large song cycles by composer Marga Richter, as well as her moving monodrama, “Lament for Art O’Leary,” which was performed by Sara Paar and pianist Andrea Lodge.
Short Songs to the Poetry of William Blake
Perfectly encapsulated miniatures of five of Blake’s poems, Sara Paar sings on “The Divine Image” with Marcia Eckert on piano.
Astrolabe
From composer Zahra Partovi: “If the piano music in this work is the microcosm of our daily travels, "I Died as Matter" song reveals the macrocosm of the larger human journey through life.”
"Alleluia from Exultate, jubilate"
Music by W. A. Mozart;
Sara Paar, soprano;
Catherine Miller, piano
"Die Beschwörung"
Music by Pauline Viardot-Garcia;
Text by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Puskin; Translated by Freidrich Martin von Bodenstedt;
Sara Paar, soprano;
Andrea Lodge, piano
"Le Couteau”
Music by Nadia Boulanger;
Text by Séverin Faust;
Sara Paar, soprano;
Andrea Lodge, piano
"Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant"
Music by Francis Poulenc;
Text by Louise de Vilmorin;
Sara Paar, soprano;
Catherine Miller, piano
"Sunday Afternoon in Ohio”
Music by Binnette Lipper;
Text by Ann Silsbee;
Sara Paar, soprano;
Catherine Miller, piano
"Pierrot lunaire, XIV. Die Kreuze"
Music by Arnold Schoenberg;
Text by Albert Giraud;
Translated by Otto Erich Hartleben;
Sara Paar, soprano;
Audrey Abela, piano;
Emily Vold, violin/viola;
Melissa Keeling, flute/piccolo;
Ashleé Miller, clarinet/bass clarinet;
Caroline Bean, cello
"Sacco, Vanzetti from Two Ricercare to poems by H.T. Tsiang"
Music by Ruth Crawford-Seegar;
Text by H.T. Tsiang;
Sara Paar, soprano;
Andrea Lodge, piano
"Pierrot from Quatre chansons de jeunesse"
Music by Claude Debussy;
Text by Théodore de Banville;
Sara Paar, soprano;
Audrey Abela, piano
“Ripple and Stillness: Whir”
Music by Kala Pierson;
Text by Christine Boyka Kluge;
Sara Paar, soprano;
Catherine Miller, piano
"Mondnacht"
Music by Robert Schumann;
Text by Joseph von Eichendorff;
Sara Paar, soprano;
Sung Jin Hong, conductor;
One World Symphony