Instrumentation
soprano soloist with tenor recorder/flute; viol da gamba/cello; harpsichord/piano.
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Other Information
A setting of 4 Thomas Hardy poems
Commissioned by the Musica Antiqua Soloists and first performed in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in March 1978.
Subsequent performances in Birmingham Cathedral, in the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, in St.James Church Wollaston, at Cambridge University at student recitals in Trinity and Queen´s Colleges, and in the USA, notably at King´s Chapel, Boston by Paula Downes (soprano), David Trippett (harpsichord), Arielle Hansen (flute) and Elizabeth Main (cello) in October 2006, and at the MIT Chapel, Cambridge, Massachusetts by Paula Downes (soprano), David Trippett (harpsichord), Jen Bliss (recorder) and Hannah Thomas (cello) in February 2009. Recorded for CD by Paula Downes with David Trippett (piano), Debbie Martin (flute) and Yvonne Parsons (cello) in July 2000.
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