A Poet To His Beloved Op.40 (1993)

for tenor, flute, string quartet and piano

(version for voice and piano also available)

Poems by William Butler Yeats

c. 15'00"

I. A Poet To His Beloved (listen to sample)
II. He Remembers Forgotten Beauty (listen to sample)
III. He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge (listen to sample)
IV. He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven (listen to sample)
V. He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead (listen to sample)
VI. He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven (listen to sample)

Commissioned by Susan and Elihu Rose

First performance: 17 February, 1993; Alice Tully Hall, NYC
Robert White, tenor; James Galway, flute; Brian Zeger, piano; the Lark Quartet

Dedicated to Robert White

Published by Theodore Presser Company | #111-40139

Recordings:
Koch International Classics | Curt Peterson, tenor | Alexa Still, flute | et alia (chamber version of first 5 movements)

Arabesque | Robert White, tenor | Lowell Liebermann, piano (piano version)