Recuerdo

Song TitleRecuerdo (Search)
Composer(s):Jonathan Dove
Author(s):Edna St. Vincent Millay
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Apples; Bare; Beggars; Blessing; Blowing; Bright; Buckets; Buying; Charity; Cold; Connection to Nature; Dawn; Dripping; Eating; Fares; Ferries; Fire; Food; Giving; God; Gold; Heads; Hills; Intimacy; Memory; Merry; Metaphor: Sun as Bucket of Gold; Money; Moon; Morning; Mothers; Nature; Night; Paper; Past; Pears; Poverty; Reminiscing; Rising; Shawls; Sky; Smelling; Stables; Story; Subway; Sun; Tables; Tired; Wan; Water; Weeping; Whistles; Wind
First LineWe were very tired, we were very merry (Search)
Average Duration4:30 (Search)
Year of composition 2015 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=11424
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZQH49bWyBIjlaNR5pANsX
Voice part suggested by composerMezzo-soprano
Range: G#3 - E5 (Search)
Original KeyF# Minor (Search)
Premiered ByKitty Whately, mezzo-soprano and Simon Lepper, piano (Search)
Commissioned ByBBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society (Search)
NotesPremiered at the 2015 Cheltenham Music Festival (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://editionpeters.com/product/nights-not-spent-alone/ep72705 (Search)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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