5 Songs for Soprano and Piano
on poems by Christina Rossetti
Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company
Catalog Number
8566
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Description
The five songs of “Christina’s World,” on poems by Christina Rossetti, loosely follow a narrative arc beginning with the joyful emotions of true love, and continuing with darker observations about the nature of being alive and of the questions of life and death, the tension of which is resolved at the end of the cycle with a positive sense that as one approaches the end of this life, all will be well and find a place of welcome and rest.
Texts
1 – A Birthday
2 – Who Has Seen the Wind?
3 – Amor Mundi
4 – When I am dead, my dearest
5 – Up-Hill
Year of Composition
2016
Duration
18 minutes
Commission
Gwen Coleman
Dedication
Gwen Coleman
First Performance
April 8, 2017
Cincinnati Song Initiative
Presbyterian Church of Wyoming
Wyoming, Ohio
Gwen Coleman, soprano
Marie-France Lefebvre, piano
Listen
Jennifer Piazza-Pick, soprano
Ying-Shan Su, piano
Christina’s World: A Birthday
Christina’s World: Who Has Seen the Wind?
Christina’s World: Amor Mundi
Christina’s World: When I am dead, my dearest
Christina’s World: Up-Hill