Old Love's Domain

Instrumentation

Tenor or soprano and Piano

Other Information

A setting of 5 Thomas Hardy poems.

Commissioned by John Mitchinson and first performed by him on BBC Radio 3 in 1985. Subsequent performances on radio and in the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham. At each of these performances, the accompanist was  Michael Pollock.                                                                                                                                               

This work has subsequently been performed on numerous occasions by Paula Downes, accompanied by Verene Rimlinger, Anna Downes, Mark Williams, Andrew Tortise, Gillian Cracknell and David Trippett. Performances by these artists have taken place at: the Candili Singing Course, Greece (August 1999); St John´s Church, Hagley (September 1999); the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge (November 1999); the Bateman Auditorium of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (January 2000); the Master´s Lodge of Trinity College, Cambridge, (February 2000); the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (May 2001); Birmingham Cathedral (July 2002); the ‘Festival Musiques en Mer’ Mediterranean Cruise (August 2002); Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth (April 2003); the Art Gallery, Wednesbury (April 2004); St Sepulchre´s Church, Holborn, London (February 2005); and the Church of St John the Evangelist, Bowdain Street, Boston, Massachussets, USA (September 2008). Paula recorded the work with David Trippett in July 2000 on a CD of song cycles by Andrew Downes, entitled ´Old Love´s Domain´. (see