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Dryads
| Composed |
1990 |
| Duration |
11' |
| Instrumentation |
SATB and Piano. |
| Comments |
Settings of 4 poems about trees, in all their different moods.
There is the austere but haunting beauty of "The Tree" by Andrew Young, the graphic quality of Norman McCaig's "Woodsman" with the rhythm duplicating the stroke of the axe as the piano scampers like fleeing squirrels; the poignancy of Thomas Hardy's "At Day Close in November", and the dramatic complexities of the Composers lines for "Binsey Poplars" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. |
| Performances |
Fortrose, 1990. Edinburgh (Consort of Voices) several occasions.
Edinburgh SCO Chorus 2004. |
| Reviews |
"...music and poetry combined with telling effect...rhythms and harmonies of all 4 pieces were angular and challenging to sing..." Inverness Courier. |
| Recordings |
CD made by SCO Chorus. |
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