Five Songs from Northern Seas
composer: Gavin Bryars
text writer: George Bruce
for tenor and piano
texts by George Bruce
Commissioned work: Commissioned by Leeds Lieder+ with grateful acknowledgment of financial support from the PRS Foundation
Premiere: October 3, 2009 Leeds, The Venue, Leeds College of Music (UK) Leeds Lieder+ 2009 · James Gilchrist, tenor; Julius Drake, piano
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 15' 0''
Year of composition: 2008/2009
Difficulty: advance
Edition: Register: tenor
Language: English
28 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-2201-3162-2
Order number: ED 13290
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Gavin Bryars has returned once again to the poetry of George Bruce and the Five Songs from Northern Seas are dedicated to his memory in his centenary year. Bryars describes the five evocative poems:
"They focus on universal qualities - of man's relationship to a harsh environment, to images of coastal life and of the sea, to that resilience and independence of spirit that Glenn Gould identified in "The Idea of North" and which I admire unreservedly - an acceptance, and even relishing, of the concept of solitude as something positive."
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