Two Blake Songs
Laurence Hughes

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Additional Information

This is a setting for unaccompanied double choir of two of William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence' - 'Night', and the famous 'Tiger, Tiger'. 'Night' evokes a magical moonlit vision of creation under the protection of God's angels, while 'Tiger, Tiger' evokes the beauty and terror of it all.

Tags

choral; songs; William Blake; mystical

Details

1. Night 2. Tiger, Tiger
Year
Score file
Blake.pdf
Minutes
9

Recordings

Date published
2014
Date recorded
1997
Performers
Arcadian Singers of Oxford University cond. Matthew O'Donovan
Title
'Night', from Two Blake Songs
Venue
Exeter College Chapel, Oxford
Media link
'Night'