SKU: ST.Y230

ISBN 9790220221736.

Commissioned with Arts Council of Wales funds by the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, for the centenary celebrations of Samuel Beckett's birth, The Flowing Sand is a setting of five poems by this seminal 20th-century modernist that are unified as a song-cycle by meaningful contrasts of mood and of musical style. The movements are 'what would I do', 'my way is in the sand', 'Da Tagte Es', 'Roundelay' and 'saying it again'. Artistically challenging, yet well within the technical range of enterprising conservatoire students, The Flowing Sand is a major addition to the repertoire of contemporary art-song by British composers, and a significant contribution to the celebrations of the writer's anniversary year.

SKU: PE.EP67620

ISBN 9790300742632.

from poems of John Ashbery: I. I Had Thought; II. The Painter; III. Sonnet; IV. At North Farm; V. Landscape; VI. Faust; VII. Hotel Lautreamont; VIII. Myrtle; IX. Illustration (I and II); Debit Night (a television docu-drama commissioned for this composition and recorded by Mr. Ashbery) [The following can be performed out of context: Sonnet, At North Farm, Faust, Myrtle, Illustrations I and II.] (Commissioned by the Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest Commission Program)