Whitacre: Five Hebrew Love Songs

Eric Whitacre's Five Hebrew Love Songs are settings of poems by the composer's wife, Grammy-winning soprano Hila Plitmann (b. 1973). The poems were written as short "postcards" intended to help Hila teach Eric Hebrew while they were students at Juilliard. The original musical setting is for soprano, violin and piano, but the composer has made versions for several different vocal and instrumental combinations.

English translations c2013, by E. Lein

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Temuná (A Picture) An image is graven upon my heart; Passing between the light and darkness: Kalá kallá (Light Bride) The gentle Bride Is wholly mine Laróv (Mostly) "On the whole," called the roof to the sky,"The distance between us is boundless; Éyze shéleg! (What Snow!) Such snow! Like little dreams Rakút (Tenderness) He was tender, She was tough--