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Piet Swerts: A Symphony of Trees: An Homage to Ivor Gurney and Ypres

Piet Swerts: A Symphony of Trees: An Homage to Ivor Gurney and Ypres

Piet Swerts
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Release Date: 03/05/2019

Edition: Album
Composer: Piet Swerts
Conductor: David Angus
Orchestra: Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen
Number of Discs: 2

The oratorio A Symphony of Trees is an emotional and musical reflection on Passchendaele 1917. It revolves around the inner monologues in many of the war poems of Ivor Gurney, a soldier as well as a poet and a composer. Feminine pendants are heard in moving poetry by Charlotte Mew and Margaret Postgate Cole. Live recording of the premiere in the cathedral of Ypres on September 15, 2017.

Track Listing:

Disc 1
1: Ypres
2: Memory, Let All Slip I
3: Of Trees Over There
4: Interlude I
5: Lament
6: May, 1915
7: Memory, Let All Slip II
8: Interlude II
9: Mist On Meadows
10: The Silent One
11: Memory, Let All Slip III - Interlude III

Disc 2
1: On Wenlock Edge
2: Ypres II
3: Afterwards
4: Interlude IV
5: Epilogue - Canaan's Land
6: Memory, Let All Slip IV
7: Finale. Day Is Done
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