This review first appeared in the print edition of Opera Canada.

Moon Loves Its Light is a debut disk by Nova Scotia soprano Allison Angelo accompanied by Australian pianist Simon Docking. It’s a mix of Canadian settings of English language texts; Harry Somers’ Three Songs to texts by Walt Whitman and Lloyd Burritt’s settings of texts from Marilyn Lerch’s Moon Loves Its Light supplemented by individual songs by Ian Bent, Oskar Morawetz and Patrick Cardy, plus songs by Debussy, Hahn, Fauré and Poulenc. Curiously, the two sets; are split up to fit the disk’s division into four sets; Moon, Night, Dreams and Moon.

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