Voice and piano
SKU:
HL.49029398
Song
Cycle. Composed by
Matyas Seiber. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Composed
1953. 24 pages. Duration
15'. Schott Music #ED
10329. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49029398).
ISBN
9790220124495.
9.0x12.0x0.084 inches.
English.
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.
