Soprano voice & piano SKU: HH.HH602-FSC
Composed by Timothy Raymond. Full score. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH602-FSC. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH602-FSC). ISBN 9790708213178.
Part I explores themes of love, regretting its loss and sometime futility. Part II, opening with the lightest song in the work, rapidly darkens to a nightmarish mood and concludes with the sonnet – fourteen lines – which, paraphrased, gives the work its title. Its succinct expression of the philosophical and technical dilemmas of the poet, as she struggles to put the violent and demonic tyranny of existential Disorder into the Order of the poem, is reminiscent of the age-old conflict of Dionysus and Apollo: the archetype which has underpinned so much artistic endeavour.
