A collection of beautiful baroque and renaissance love songs that reflect the versatility of love - passionate, dramatic and addictive by the most popular composers of this time, from Monteverdi, Purcell, Cesti to Merula and Dowland.

Love is Simone Kermes’ most intimate and personal album yet.

The arrangement, cast of instruments, and recording set up is as such that the “pop song” quality, the contemporary and eternal spirit, the immediacy of these compositions is revealed. All sung with the unique legato, pure, and silver quality that makes Simone Kermes’ voice so special.

Simone Kermes is a dramatic coloratura soprano and multi-award winner. For her solo albums she has received a number of international awards, such as the annual award of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik, the Echo Klassik award for 2011 Female Singer of the Year, the Diapason d"Or, Midem Award, Choc Le Monde de la Musique and Gramophone magazine’s Recording of the Month. In April 2013 she received one of Russia’s highest cultural awards, the Golden Mask, for her performances as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Tchaikovsky State Academic Theatre in Perm.

Opera performances have taken her as Konstanze, the Queen of the Night, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Giunia, Rosalinde, Lucia, Gilda, Ann Truelove, Alcina and Laodice, among other roles, to New York, Paris, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Moscow, Beijing and German state opera houses.

Track listing:

1. Lamento della ninfa: Amor, amor

2. Folle è ben che si crede

3. Quelles beautés, ô mortels (Récit de Mnémosyne)

4. Ay amor loco

5. Che si può fare?

6. Sombres déserts

7. If Love’s a Sweet Passion

8. Grida l'alma a tutt’ ore

9. Frescos ayres del prado

10. Chi vuol ch'io m'innamori

11. Chi mi tolse alle sfere! … Lumi potete piangere

12. I Burn, I Burn

13. Disserratevi abissi

14. Restless in Thoughts

15. Now, O Now I Needs Must Part

16. Piu bella maestà … Dormi, dormi ben mio

17. Thy Hand Belinda … When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido’s Lament)