Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012)

sweet/winterhart (2001)

for four-part mixed choir and violin

  • General information
    • Composition date: 2001
    • Duration: 10 mn
    • Publisher: Faber Music
    • Commission: Madeleine Mitchell et la Joyful Company of Singers avec l'aide de l'Arts Council of England, la fondation Performing Right Society, l'Esmee Fairbairn Trust et la fondation Britten-Pears.
    • Libretto (details, author):

      William Shakespeare, Sonnet V et Paul Celan sie, die den Blick, auf dem die Blicke ruhn

Detailed formation
  • mixed choir à 4 voix [SATB]
  • violin

Premiere information

  • Date: 2 June 2001
    Location:

    Royaume-Uni, festival de Bath


    Performers:

    Madeleine Mitchell : violon, Joyful Company of Singers.