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A Sinking Love (1995)
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Programme Note
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A Sinking Love - version for voice and string quartet
Sinking Love is based on the first six notes of Henry Purcell’s Fantasia #8 and set to the Chinese classical poem “In the Quiet Night” by Li Po (8th century). This piece was commissioned by the Southbank Centre, London for the Purcell tercentenary celebrations.
A Sinking Love - version for voice and string quartet
Sinking Love is based on the first six notes of Henry Purcell’s Fantasia #8 and set to the Chinese classical poem “In the Quiet Night” by Li Po (8th century). This piece was commissioned by the Southbank Centre, London for the Purcell tercentenary celebrations.
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Reviews
The viols play exclusively in harmonics, and the dynamic level is often scarcely more than a whisper. But every sound, sung or played, is carefully weighted and coloured, so that one hangs on every microscopic, poetic gesture in this moving, delicate expression of homesickness.
5th May 1995
