Elena Kats-Chernin (b. 1957)
Dark Wind Blowing
Voice (baritone/alto), piano
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Details
- For
- Voice (baritone/alto), piano
- Product Type
- Noten für eine Aufführung werden 2 Exemplare benötigt
- Author / Composer
- Elena Kats-Chernin
- Product number
- 795785
- Difficulty Level
- 4
- Languages
- english
Description
Dark Wind Blowing is the title of the second collection of poems published in 1961 by the Australian poet, lecturer and opera critic Valentine Thomas Vallis (1916 - 2009). After his death, his heirs commissioned Elena Kats-Chernin to set some of his texts to music. She composed a song cycle, choosing five poems from the Collection - a loosely woven narrative that traverses an arc from first love to the death of love. Vallis’ often melancholic poetry draws on his life and his experiences as a phi...
Content
- I. Song for a Moonlit Night
- II. For This, the Tide
- III. Southend, Curtis Island: The Gull
- IV. At Tintagel
- V. The Sleeper