"Song" [Ruth Byrchmore]

"Song" [Ruth Byrchmore]

First line of lyrics: When I am dead, my dearest

Part of: "In the silence of the night"

Byrchmore, Ruth; music (English, born 1966)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1995 [composition]

genre: choral music|song cycle|song

chorus: unknown type

instrumentation: a cappella

origin: United Kingdom

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")

Place in the larger work: The second movement of three in a song cycle called "In the Silence of the Night," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Echo"; 2. "Song"; 3. "Mirage".

Recordings: "Song." Children of our time, performance by Schola Cantorum of Oxford and Jeremy Summerly, conductor, Hyperion, 2006. https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67575

Format 1: sound recording

performance time 6 minutes and 20 seconds; complete song cycle performance time 14 minutes and 45 seconds

Other data reference(s): "In the silence of the night." Hyperion, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/tw.asp?w=W5212. Accessed 25 Apr. 2020.

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-byrchmore

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