Echo for soprano and piano Soprano Voice - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: S9.Q583303

English.

Echo was written for Ruby Hughes, and given its premiere, with Julius Drake at the piano, at Carnegie Hall, New York, on 13 October 2017. It is the third piece (following my one-act opera In the Locked Room, and my song cycle with string orchestra, Remember) that I’ve written for Ruby’s exquisite voice, which was very much in my mind as I wrote the music. There are five songs altogether, beginning with a setting of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Echo’ which gives the cycle its title. After settings of Dickinson, Larkin and Yeats, the cycle ends with a short but searingly powerful poem by David Harsent. Echo was a co-commission between Carnegie Hall and the Presteigne Festival; it received its UK premiere on 25 August 2018 at St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne performed by Ruby Hughes and Huw Watkins.

Echo wurde für Ruby Hughes geschrieben und 2017 uraufgeführt. Der Zyklus besteht aus insgesamt fünf Liedern und beginnt mit einer Vertonung von Christina Rossettis „Echo, die dem Zyklus auch seinen Titel gibt. Nach Vertonungen von Dickinson, Larkin und Yeats endet der Zyklus mit einem kurzen, aber äußerst kraftvollen Gedicht von David Harsent.