To Poetry
composer: Mátyás Seiber
text writer: William Dunbar - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - William Shakespeare
translator: Louis MacNeice
Song Cycle
Dedication: For Peter Pears
Premiere: 22 May 1953 · Royal Festival House · London · Peter Pears, tenor · Noel Mewton-Woods, piano
Instrumentation: voice and piano
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 15' 0''
Year of composition: 1953
Edition: Register: high
Language: English
21 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-2201-2449-5
Order number: ED 10329
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This substantial cycle was written for the tenor Peter Pears, and first performed by him in 1953 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, with the distinguished pianist Noel Mewton-Wood. It follws the example of Britten's Serenade in setting a variety of poets, and the set is framed by settings of the same words by Goethe in translation by Louis MacNeice, the unifying factor being presumably the quality of the poetry. The angry setting of Timor Mortis, using the well-known Dies Irae tune is the emotional hear of the cycle.
John Turner 2010
Content
Invocation (Goethe, translation Louis MacNeice)
Sonnet (Shakespeare)
Tears(Anon)
Timor Mortis (William DUnbar)
Epilogue (Goethe, translation Louis MacNiece)
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