Instrumentation
Availability
B3 facsimile (fp) 0-571-55367-2 on sale
Programme Notes
This setting of a poem by Thomas Traherne (1637-74) was composed between August 1978 and May 1979 as a sixty-ninth birthday present for Peter Pears, who, with Steuart Bedford, gave the first performance at the 1980 Aldeburgh Festival.
Colin Matthews
Reviews
‘Matthews' setting of Traherne, simple, entirely syllabic with a spare and understated piano accompaniment, was written as a birthday present for Sir Peter Pears. It is unpretentious and carefully written…’
Financial Times (Andrew Clements), 14 June 1980