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Edges

A song cycle (10 songs)composed by Rick Birley2004-6 [Soprano, violin & piano]

www.rickbirley.com

Edges” was recorded live in St Mary’s Church,Dorchester (Dorset), at the end of May 2008. Soprano – Abbi Temple Violin – Jennifer Curiel Piano – Peter Oakes

The songs were composed over a period of nearly two years from 2004, being completed in January 2006. No.6 - “the first Day’s Night” - is based on a piece I originally composed for the “Songs of Time” in 1997.

EDGES

1. The Madwoman of Cork
2. Casting
3. Counting the Mad
4. A Birthday Poem
5. The Butterfly
6. The first Day’s Night had come…
7. Ecclesiastes
8. Noon Walk on the Asylum Lawn
9. Love’s Madness
10. Hospital for Defectives

Most of the poems are written about or by people suffering mental health problems, and the sense of the collection is that we all exist on a fragile "Edge", capable of slipping (often without warning) into difficult states of mind. More information can be found on my website: www.rickbirley.com
 

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Song cycle
Year:
2006
Category:
Song (Voice w/wo 1 instr)
Publisher:
Composer
Minutes:
35
Seconds:
9
Total Number of Instruments:
3

Instrumentation

Piano
1
Soprano
1
Violin
1

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