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Notes
Three Liturgical Songs
- These three
pieces are duets between two equal partners. The singer speaks to the ‘cello
and vice versa. The themes in each of the liturgical songs pass between the
singer and ‘cello so as to give time to reflect upon the words. Above all the
words are important and each piece is led by the words.
Lead, kindly light
- I always felt
that the words of this wonderful poem have never been given proper justice by
hymn tunes because although the meter is seemingly the same in the three verses
the stress is quite different. For this reason this music is unashamedly
asymmetrical to give a proper interpretation to the words. There is a built-in
rubato by the nature of the rhythms so it should be sung in strict time. This
piece was first performed by Roderick Earle and Catherine Porteus at the 1996
Covent Garden Festival in London.
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