On the Dust I love
Details
| Instrument family | Voice and piano |
| Catalog classifications | Voice and piano |
| Total duration | 00:10:00 |
| Publisher | Éditions Billaudot |
| Cotage | GB10147 |
| Total number of pages | 16 |
| Cycle / Level | concert |
| Target audience | Adults |
| Copyright year | 2022 |
| EAN code | 9790043101475 |
€19.61w/ taxes
- Secure payment
- 2 or 3 days delivery
- Free money-back returns
In order to benefit from the discounts granted to teachers and resellers throughout the year, you will need to send us proof of your professional status once your registration is complete.
Description
When Bruno Messina commissioned me to write a work for voice and orchestra based on a text by Lord Byron, which would be premiered in French at the 2019 Berlioz Festival, I thought of his poem On the Death of a Young Lady . It was composed in memory of his recently deceased cousin Margaret Parker by a poet who was just fourteen years old. Two years earlier, Byron had already dedicated another poem to the young girl, in which he confided his love to her. A poem of mourning, a poignant page... the poem's gravity led me to set it to music for mezzo voice. The lamentation begins with a harp knell, continues in its central section with a denser counterpoint built on a chromatic collapse, and concludes with a swaying of chords opening onto an eternity that is less funereal than peaceful.
Karol Beffa
Commissioned by the 2019 Berlioz Festival.
Premiere on August 22, 2019, as part of the Berlioz Festival in La Côte-Saint-André, by Albane CARRÈRE (mezzo-soprano) and the Orchestre National de Metz, conducted by David REILAND.