Grigory Smirnov
Dowson Songs
Song cycle on poems by Ernest Dowson (2013)
for tenor and piano
Duration: 50'
Solos:
piano
tenor
Dowson Songs
Video
Work introduction
Dowson Songs is a song cycle for tenor and piano based on poems by Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900), an English Romantic poet.
1. Tears fall within mine heart
2. A Coronal
3. Transition
4. Exile
5. Interlude
6. When this, our rose, is faded
7. Seraphita
8. I would not alter thy cold eyes
9. The gift of Silence
10. The days of wine and roses
11. A land of Silence
12. Postlude