Programme Note
Five poems by or about Wagner:
Wagner (Rupert Brooke)
The Return of Napoleon to Paris (Wagner)
Le silence deja funebre (Mallarme)
The Death of Wagner (Swinburne)
Epitaph (Wagner)
1983 • 15' • soprano/large orchestra
Five poems by or about Wagner:
Wagner (Rupert Brooke)
The Return of Napoleon to Paris (Wagner)
Le silence deja funebre (Mallarme)
The Death of Wagner (Swinburne)
Epitaph (Wagner)
” its first performance . . . confirmed the composer’s already acknowledged imagination as a writer for the voice and as an orchestrator ”
Kenneth Loveland – South Wales Argu