9 Songs for Tenor and Piano
on sonnets by John Donne
Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company
Catalog Number
8578
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Description
A setting of the same nine sonnets set by Benjamin Britten in his cycle of the same name, providing an alternative view of Donne’s deeply moving and thought-provoking texts on the nature of our beings, and on our relationships with those in our lives and with God.
Texts
1 – Oh my blacke Soule!
2 – Batter my heart
3 – O might those sighes and teares
4 – Oh, to vex me
5 – What if this present
6 – Since she whom I lov’d
7 – At the round earths imagin’d corners
8 – Thou hast made me
9 – Death be not proud
Year of Composition
2013
Duration
35 minutes
Commission
Joel Burcham
Dedication
Harold Michael Hall
First Performance
November 15, 2014
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
Joel Burcham, tenor
Elizabeth Avery, piano
Listen
Joel Burcham, tenor
Elizabeth Avery, piano
Oh my blacke Soule!
Batter my heart
O might those sighes and teares
Oh, to vex me
What if this present
Since she whom I lov’d
At the round earths imagin’d corners
Thou hast made me
Death be not proud