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Phoenix / De ave phoenice (The)
Phoenix / De ave phoenice (The) (2002)
for Solo Soprano, Solo Baritone, Harpsichord, Oboe 1&2, Viola/Violin, Violoncello
- The Grove of the Sun Download PDF
- The Fountain and the Bird Download PDF
- Instrumental (Violoncello Solo) Download PDF
- The Indescribable Notes by Day and Night Download PDF
- The Flight to this World Where Death Holds Sway Download PDF
- and the Death of the Phoenix Download PDF
- Rebirth Download PDF
- Instrumental (Dance of Celebration) Download PDF
- She Sips the Ambrosial Dew and Hastens to the City of the Sun Download PDF
- Egypt Marvels Download PDF
- She Returns to Her Proper Habitat Download PDF
- Bird of Happy Lot and Purpose Download PDF
Duration: 42 min.
Commissioned by the Boston Athenaeum
To commemorate their reopening after renovations
Premiered (27 November 2002) by Ellen Hargis, soprano; Sanford Sylvan, baritone; Peter Sykes, harpsichord, Julianne Verret, oboe/English horn, Jane Harrison, oboe/English horn; Anne Black, violin/viola, and Emily Walhout, cello
Text by Carmen Lactantius (Latin), trans. Sister Mary Francis McDonald, O.P. (English)