The First Book of Madrigals. Music by Gavin Bryars, for unaccompanied male voices (2000)
Gavin commissioned thirteen poems from Blake to be set to music – they were first sung by the Hilliard Ensemble in Finland in December 2000. Eleven of them subsequently appeared, along with others, in Blake's sequence ‘Madrigalia', in the Selected Poems . Two others, ‘Web' and ‘Against Dieting' have not been collected.
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Gavin Bryars: First Book of Madrigals - For Unaccompanied Male Voices These Madrigals were written especially for the Hilliard Ensemble with who Gavin Bryars has worked for many years. The texts are by the poet and writer Blake Morrison.
Web
Stormy
Almond Tree
Just As The Ash-Glow`
Within Minutes
Our Bodies In The Shower
She'd Buy Things
All The Homely Arts And Crafts
In April
Who's The More To Blame
The Print Of Soles
My Pomegranate
Against Dieting
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