Pippa Passes - five songs of Asolo

Instrumentation

Mezzo-soprano and Piano Trio

Score, download - 0.85MB

Other Information

Pippa Passes is a dramatic poem by Robert Browning, first published in 1841.

Pippa is a young girl working in the silk mills of Asolo, and New Year’s Day is her one day holiday in the year. She decides to spend it walking past four of Asolo’s happiest households, in which unknown to her, despite appearances, things are taking a very unattractive turn.

These five settings use just two of Pippa’s songs, with the other three settings taken from the opening and closing lines of the Epilogue.

The work was recorded in July 2010 by the wonderful mezzo Yvonne Howard and The English Piano Trio and the CD is now available from the classical music site www.tutti.co.uk

Also included here is a link to a dramatic complete work video recording with Yvonne Howard and piano trio. (concert at St Mary's Church Stafford) To view it, go to CLICK HERE to the left, here.

There are sound clips here from each of the five movements, and there are also matching score extracts.

For further information visit:

http://www.ardrosshouse.com/pippa_passes