Laura Strickling Praised for the Recording of Tom Cipullo’s “The Parting”

“The night is ours” soars with reverence and optimism, and Fanni’s vision of birds and lilac blossoming by the Danube is warm and genuine. Strickling copes easily with the numerous sudden and large rises in pitch and intensity, particularly when Fanni’s frustrations get the better of her…. The musical highpoints are the couple’s duets. The unaccompanied duet in which Miklós and Fanni rock back and forth in each other’s arm finds both singers rising to beautiful vocal peaks, with a quiet rapture which momentarily dispels the inevitable horror to come: “In your two arms, as through a dream, I will pass through”.

"In its finest moments, The Parting is a thought-provoking, and consoling, meditation on the art that survives us and denies death." -- MusicWeb International