Labyrinth of love : for soprano, winds, piano, contrabass and percussion : (2012) / Michael Daugherty ; piano vocal, reduction for piano by the composer.
Original instrumentation for soprano, flute/piccolo, oboe/English horn, B♭ clarinet/bass clarinet, SATB saxophones, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion (one or two players), piano, and contrabass. Piano reduction by composer (Full score on cover is incorrect). Includes program and biographical notes in English. Commissioned by Present Music, Milwaukee and the Rambert Dance Company, London. Duration: 40 minutes. Labyrinth of love is inspired by the love poetry and prose by eight women. The texts I have selected, and the musical landscape I have created, is full of bitterness, desire, longing, ecstasy, irony, tenderness, despair, hope, sadness and humor--Composer's note.
Contents:
Short talk on the sensation of aeroplane takeoff / (Anne Carson). Sappho 47 / (Sappho) -- Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIII / (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) -- If I may have it when it's dead / (Emily Dickinson) -- On the difficulty of loving an invisible God / (Juana Ines de la Cruz) -- Liz's lament / (Elizabeth Taylor) -- Oh, come to me in dreams, my love! / (Mary Shelley) -- Short talk on the sensation of aeroplane takeoff / (Anne Carson).
OCLC:
(OCoLC)893979164
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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