Commissioned by the Estoril Festival

  • S + 3(III:pic).3(III:ca).3(III:bcl).3(III:cbn)/4.3(III:pictpt).3.1/timp.3perc/pf(cel).hp/str
  • Soprano
  • 14 min
  • Alexander Search (Fernando Pessoa's alter ego)

Programme Note

Search Songs sets a collection of poems written between 1906 and 1908 by Fernando Pessoa’s alter ego ‘Alexander Search’.

I. towards the end
II. justice
III. sunset song
IV. the lip
V. early fragments

The work was commissioned by the Estoril Festival and first performed by Yeree Suh (soprano) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Cesário Costa, at Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon on 2nd July 2007.