Classical Composer: | Ireland, John |
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Lyricist: | Anonymous |
Work: | They Told Me, Heraclitus |
Year Composed: | 1924 |
Instrumentation: | ch |
Publisher: | Boosey & Hawkes |
Duration: | 00:02:38 |
Period: | 20th Century |
Work Category: | Choral - Secular |
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A setting about the remembrance of friendship in William Cory's splendid translation of Heraclitus (by Callimachus of Hallicarnassus), was composed for Herbert Hughes and the De Reszke Singers (a group of singers who had all been pupils of the renowned Polish tenor, Jean de Reszke). A brooding, sinuous elegy in B flat minor, the partsong has much in common thematically (especially in the last phrase of each verse) with the rueful Epilogue of The Land of Lost Content published just a few years before and also presaged similar material in the forthcoming song collections of Five Poems by Thomas Hardy (1926) and Songs Sacred and Profane (1929—30).
Writer: Jeremy Dibble
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