Baritone voice & Piano
SKU: ST.Y329
Composed by Rhian Samuel.
Five songs for baritone
and piano to texts by
Charles Hamilton Sorley.
Vocal Score. Stainer &
Bell Ltd. #Y329.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.Y329).
ISBN
9790220224553.
In
her song-set for baritone
and piano A Swift
Radiant Morning,
Rhian Samuel, a noted
contemporary composer of
English song, has created
a portrait in words and
music of the young poet
Charles Hamilton Sorley
(1895-1915). Robert
Graves described Sorley's
death - at the Battle of
Loos - as among the three
most significant amongst
poets in the First World
War (the others being
Wilfred Owen and Isaac
Rosenberg). The five
songs are 'Rooks', 'The
Sounds of War', 'The
Signpost', 'In Memoriam',
and 'Earth's King'. The
composer offers in the
last song a celebration
of Sorley's life, and a
testament to his enduring
legacy. A Swift
Radiant Morning was
commissioned by the Three
Choirs Festival,
Hereford, 2015, for a
first performance by
Roderick Williams,
baritone, and Susie
Allan, piano, at Holy
Trinity Church, Hereford,
on 25 July 2015.
CONTENTS
1 Rooks
2 The Sounds of War
3
The Signpost
4 In
Memoriam
5 Earth's
King.
