Through galleried earth

Through galleried earth 2012
high voice, piano (4′30)

Text: Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

Commissioned by Gavin Roberts.

This can be performed as a standalone song for high voice and piano, or as one of Two London Songs alongside a setting of Carol Ann Duffy’s Translating the English, 1989).

First performance: Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 9.12.2012
Lucy Hall soprano | Gavin Roberts piano