"A Birthday" [Patrick Hawes]
Title
"A Birthday" [Patrick Hawes]
First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
Creator
Hawes, Patrick; music (English, born 1958)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Date
2009 [sound recording]
Publisher
Hyperion Records
Subject
genre: art song (lied)|song
solo: soprano
instrumentation: harp
origin: United Kingdom
male composer
Language
English
Description
Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
Recordings: "A Birthday." Fair Albion: A Vision of English, performance by Dante Quartet, Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano and Claire Jones, harp, Hyperion Records, 2009, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_SIGCD178. And in Art Song Collection, 2012, Signum Classics, https://signumrecords.com/product/art-song-collection/SIGCD303/.
Notes: "A birthday is one of my favourite Rossetti poems. [...] we are reminded of our native wildlife and flora and the way in which our natural habitats inevitably become part of the people we are." (liner notes by Patrick Hawes, 2009)
Format
Format 1: sound recording
performance time 3 minutes and 3 seconds
Source
Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Identifier
Record: CRM-birthday-hawes
Rights
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Files
Collection
Citation
Hawes, Patrick; music (English, born 1958) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"A Birthday" [Patrick Hawes],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 21, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2271.