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Spells

soprano, flute(=alto flute=piccolo), oboe(=cor anglais), viola, percussion

Wilfrid Mellers

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Description

A Northumbrian Sequence. Poems by Kathleen Raine.

Prologue
1. Love spell
2. Spell against sorrow
3. Spell to bring lost creatures home
4. Spell of creation
5. The Unloved
6. Amo ergo sum
Epilogue - Spell of safekeeping

Revised 2003.

Details

Categories
Duration
24 minutes
Libretto/text
Kathleen Raine
Premiere

Pauline Lewis and members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, 1960

Scoring
1 Soprano, 1 Flute (=piccolo=alto flute), 1 Oboe (=Cor anglais), 1 Percussion, 1 Viola
Composition date
1960