Originally for mixed chorus (principally SSAATTBB) with orchestra; orchestral accompaniment arranged for piano. Texts adapted from poems by Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sara Teasdale. Recorded on Decca by VOCES8 and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Tin.
Contents:
Flocks a mile wide -- The saddest noise / Emily Dickinson -- Bird raptures ; A hundred thousand birds / Christina Rossetti -- Wild swans / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Intermezzo -- Thus in the winter / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- There will come soft rains ; All that could never be said / Sara Teasdale -- I shall not see the shadows / Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson -- In the end / Sara Teasdale -- Hope is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson.
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