Baritone voice & Piano
SKU: ST.Y230
Composed by Rhian Samuel.
Vocal music. Five songs
to poems by Samuel
Beckett.. Score. Stainer
& Bell Ltd. #Y230.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.Y230).
ISBN
9790220221736.
Comm
issioned 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.
