Lament

Instrumentation

Cello
1
Double bass
1
Viola
1
Voices

Additional Information

Lament is a short piece which expresses emotions embodied in these lines from ‘The Wife's Lament’, an Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book (in the modern translation by Michael R. Burch): 

    "I draw these dark words from deep wells of wild grief, dredged from my heart, regretful & sad". 

Details

Year
Minutes
7