Music Text
Robert Bridges
Abbreviations (PDF)
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Availability
World Premiere
Clare College, Cambridge
Clare College Chapel Choir / Timothy Brown
Composer's Notes
This little anthem for unaccompanied chorus was written as a tribute to Alexander Goeher on his 50th birthday. It sets a poem by Robert Bridges putting words into the mouth of the blind John Milton, puzzled, defiant and ultimately acquiescent in his affliction.
© Robin Holloway
Subjects
Recommended Recording
New College Choir Oxford / Edward Higginbottom
Avie AV2085
Listening
