Songs and Haiku

Songs and Haiku is a previously unreleased collection of songs for mezzo-soprano and piano, published to mark what would have been Jonathan Harvey's 80th birthday in 2019.

Two haiku (the first for piano alone - the only piece here to have been published before - the latter by Bash¿) bookend three love songs dedicated to Harvey's wife Rosa. The grouping of the pieces into a 8-minute cycle was the composer's own idea, and it mixes Eastern and Western poets in a totally characteristic manner. Both Tagore and E. E. Cummings are represented, poets who feature in some of Harvey's finest works (Song Offerings and Forms of Emptiness, respectively), and a third song sets Tennyson's 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal'.

Product details

• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780571541157
• ISBN: 978-0-571-54115-7
• No. of pages: 20
• Series: Faber Edition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Sheet music; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Classical, opera, operetta, musical