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Dream-Songs
composer
1986
author of text
Well known is the short cycle of Dream-Songs from 1986 for unison high voices (or solo voice) and piano. Bennett seems to have an imaginative affinity with the atmospheric verses of Walter de la Mare, which he clothes in this cycle with strikingly appropriate and evocative music.
from notes by Malcolm MacDonald © 2012
Recordings
 Bennett (RR): Letters to Lindbergh & other choral worksStudio Master: SIGCD325Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available  One of the most versatile musicians of his generation, Richard Rodney Bennett was at the forefront of British musical life for nearly half a century. This new recording from the National Youth Choir of Scotland's National Girls Choir compiles a pr ...» More |
Details
No 1: The song of the wanderer
Nobody, nobody told me
No 2: The song of the shadows
Sweep thy faint strings, Musician
No 3: Dream-Song
Sunlight, moonlight
No 4: The song of the mad prince
Who said, 'Peacock Pie'?
