Five poems by or about Wagner

Wagner (Rupert Brooke)
The Return of Napoleon to Paris (Wagner)
Le silence deja funebre (Mallarme)
The Death of Wagner (Swinburne)
Epitaph (Wagner)

Length / Year
15' / 1983

Instrumentation
soprano/large orchestra

Reviews
" its first performance . . . confirmed the composer's already acknowledged imagination as a writer for the voice and as an orchestrator "
Kenneth Loveland - South Wales Argu

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Performance History
First performance
Monmouth Merlin Music Society concert
10th May 1985
Miriam Bowen
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra

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