Three Songs (Christina Rossetti) Elias, OnDemandBrian Part of the Music Sales Group Chester Music Limited Extract Score begins on the next page.
FOUR EMILY BRONTË SONGS for low voice and viola CHESTERBrian(2021)EliasMUSIC Feb18
These four poems are typical of Emily Brontë’s verse, which for me is always coloured by a touch of sadness and expresses a vast, intimate, and interior world, rich with dreams and imagery drawn from nature. I have wanted to set some of her verse of her sublime character, that of a low voice (mezzo soprano, alto or counter tenor) accompanied by viola. to A.A.’ is probably one of the Gondal poems included in the saga created fragment.
Duration c. 12.5 minutes Order No. CH88177 The songs may be performed separately. COMPOSER’S NOTE
Brian Elias January 2021 NOTE ON THE TEXTS ‘Song