Voices
(first performance)
ROSE TAYLOR (mezzo-soprano) PAUL SPERRY (tenor) LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by THE COMPOSER
All except one of these 22 songs were written in the first six months of last year.
Hans Werner Henze 's choice of poems and the order in which they are arranged reflect his personal political perspectives and emotional involvement, and it is this perspective and these feelings which give the cycle its cohesion, rather than any narrative or musical structure.
9.20* Reading
9.30* Voices Part 2
(A London Sinfonietta concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, on 4 January)