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Eve dreams in Paradise

for mezzo-soprano, tenor & orchestra
Text by John Milton
mezzo soprano, tenor and orchestra
Edition: Performance material

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Eve dreams in Paradise was composed for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its then principal conductor, Simon Rattle. The work sets a passage from John Milton’s Paradise Lost, in which Eve describes to Adam a dream she has had: She was persuaded by Satan to eat from the forbidden tree of knowledge, then flew with him up to the clouds and beheld earth from above. Adam is disturbed by the dream, but reassures Eve. The passage is set in a wide-ranging ‘arioso’ with a transparent orchestral accompaniment suggestive of the precariousness of paradise and the elusiveness of Eve’s Dream.

Orchestral Cast

pic.2(2.afl).2.ca.2(1.Ebcl).bcl.2-4.2.2(1.btbn).1-timp.5perc(glsp, xyl, tri, 2sus cym, gong, tamb, 3tom-t, b.d, casts)-chamber org(cel)-str

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Title:
Eve dreams in Paradise
for mezzo-soprano, tenor & orchestra
Text by John Milton
Language:
English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1987 - 1988
Opus:
op. 49
Duration:
30 ′
World Premiere:
March 14, 1989 · Birmingham (UK)
Town Hall
Ameral Gunson, soprano; Philip Langridge, tenor · Conductor: Simon Rattle · City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the Feeney Trust for the City of Birmingham Orchestra
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
LSL 1837-01

Performances

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  • Eve dreams in Paradise
    BBC Proms 1990
    Conductor: Matthias Bamert
    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
    August 16, 1990 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Royal Albert Hall
  • Eve dreams in Paradise
    Conductor: Simon Rattle
    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    March 15, 1989 | Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Town Hall
  • Eve dreams in Paradise
    Conductor: Simon Rattle
    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    March 14, 1989 | Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Town Hall — World Premiere
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