Small Ensemble Alto, Alto Voice, Mezzo-Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano Voice, Vibraphone - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1706554
Composed by Anthony Gilbert. This edition: pdf. 21st Century. 13 pages. UYMP #1270359. Published by UYMP (A0.1706554).
Throughout his life, even when in Northampton Asylum, John Clare’s poetry constantly returned to the fenland countryside of his youth, celebrating in particular three fond memories: Mary, his first love, birds of the countryside and church bells. Those Fenny Bellstakes his first bell poem, written while still living at Helford, and combines it with assonant fenland place-names, playing the part of bells, perhaps, sung by the treble. The melodies for both voices involve ‘Cambridge surprise’, a local change-ringing method. Assonance is used to combine vocal heterophony.
Those Fenny Bells was commissioned by NMC Recordings Ltd for their 'Songbook' album, and first performed by Loré Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano, Michael Chance, counter-tenor and Andred Ball, vibraphone at Kings Place, London on 3rd April 2009.
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