ComposerCarol Ann Duffy/Kerry Milan
Difficultydifficult
Formatpiano and vocal score(download)
PublisherArdross House
Instrumentsfemale vocal and piano
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Picture of Sheet music  for female vocal and piano by Carol Ann Duffy and Kerry Milan. Rapture Song Cycle for Female Voice and Pianoforte: 20 settings of the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy.  Range: C4 to B5 with ossia.  15: Grief  (41st of 52)  - especially heartfelt, with a dear friend dying.

Rapture Song Cycle for Female Voice and Pianoforte: 20 settings of the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. The Rapture collection is a book-length poem, and a moving act of personal testimony, charting the course of an affair and touching on infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation and grief. It is a contemporary look at an age-old experience.

Kerry Milan has set twenty of the fifty two poems, seeking above all to be faithful to the ever-changing spirit of this magnificent work, winner of the 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize.

But how to set such a captivating range of emotions, changing not just from one poem to the next, but within just a few lines, often with short sentences, each with its own surprising turn of phrase and feeling? This need, to be able to switch suddenly and unexpectedly from one thought or reflection to the next, led to the decision to choose the medium of tone-row music and happily the result has been some hauntingly beautiful music with a contemporary feel and, like the poems themselves, a hopefully universal appeal.

The 52 minute work was recorded by Yvonne Howard and Scott Mitchell at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in September 2018.

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