Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
The Bermudas
Duration: 10'
Text von: Andrew Marvel
Choir: STB
Instrumentation details:
2 1(ad lib.) 2 1(ad lib.) - 2 2 1(ad lib.) 0 - timp, perc(3), pno 4hd, str
Bennett - The Bermudas for choir and school orchestra
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
Bennett: BENNETT THE BERMUDAS ScoreOrchestration: for choir (high voices, tenors and basses) and school orchestra
Type: Partitur
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
Bennett: The Bermudas for choir (high voice, tenor and bass) and school orchestraOrchestration: for choir (high voice, tenor and bass) and school orchestra
Type: Chorpartitur
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
Bennett: The Bermudas for choir (high voice, tenor and bass) and school orchestraOrchestration: for choir (high voice, tenor and bass) and school orchestra
Type: Klavierauszug
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Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Bermudas was written for the choir and orchestra of Leighton Park School. The text is drawn from a larger poetic work, The Emigrants in the Bermudas, by Andrew Marvell, a seventeenth-century English poet and satirist, and narrates the discovery of the Bermuda Islands by a small group of Englishmen. The poem includes the voyageur’s praise to God for having discovered the bountiful island.
The ten-minute cantata is scored for a three-part chorus of trebles, tenors and basses and a small chamber orchestra of double winds, brass, strings, percussion and piano duet.
William B. Wells