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From the songs of England's John Dowland to Schubert's immortal lied to the French melodies of Reynaldo Hahn to the genre-bending fancies of American composer William Bolcom, the union of poetry and melody has enchanted and challenged composers across the centuries.
In some instances, such works for solo voice are meant to be heard individually, each a perfect distillation of emotion, as in the cases of songs by Poulenc; in others, they are strung together like pearls into larger song cycles such as those of Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Mahler. In these kinds of larger scale works, the interplay between the soloist and a full orchestra offers a striking contrast, while the intimacy and immediacy of voice plus piano transfixes composers, performers and audiences alike.
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