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12 poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins for high barione and piano.
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Poetry texts
12 songs: 1. Inversnaid 2. Pied Beauty 3. Harry Ploughman 4. The Windhover 5. Tom's Garland 6. Andromeda 7' That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire 8. Spring and Fall 9. Sonnet: No worse there is none 10. Moonrise 11. Sonnet: I wake and feel the fell of dark not day. 12. Heaven Haven.
Biographies
The first performance of The Windhover, Harry Ploughman and Tom’s Garland was given by the composer as baritone soloist with Geoffrey Poole, piano, at Bristol Music Club on 6 December 2013
The first performance of the complete song cycle Mountains of the Mind was given by Matthew Clark and the composer as alternating baritone soloists with Philip Blandford, piano, at St. Paul’s Church, Clifton, Bristol, on Thursday 17th May 2018 as part of the Severnside Composers Alliance New Music Festival 2018
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Woollard, near Bristol
United Kingdom