DANIEL BASFORD - COMPOSER & ARRANGER

Four Rossetti Songs

2014. Duration 14' approx. Wind Ensemble version published by Maecenas Music (details coming soon)

 

 

 

 

Commissioned by Mid Hertfordshire Music Centre.

First performance - May 2014, Edward Guiness Hall, Dame Alice Owens School, Potters Bar

Mid Herts. Youth Concert Band, cond. Bernard Bean

Baritone - Tim Hobman

 

Scoring

Available in versions for Small Orchestra and Wind Ensemble 

 

I. Dawn on the Night-Journey

II. Love's Last Gift

III. Silent Noon

IV. Remember Me

 

Programme Note

Four Rossetti Songs is conceived as a kind of sequel to my large-scale cantata Night Journey. Indeed, the first movement begins in the same key in which Night Journey ends, as if following on immediately after the cantata. Unlike that work however, each of the Songs functions individually, since they are not designed to describe a single narrative thread across the four movements.

 

Whilst certainly owing something to the gentle song-writing of English composers - Vaughan Williams and Ivor Gurney in particular - the piece contains much chamber-like scoring and timbral changes within a more pastoral harmonic framework.