Sentence examples for settings of verses from inspiring English sources
He began in that territory with a rich-hued, moving account of Brahms's late settings of verses from Ecclesiastes and Corinthians, the "Four Serious Songs" (Op. 121).
Ms. Lott sang with unusual restraint in four Mahler settings of verses by Rückert, her sound bright and clear but seemingly pent up.
In the richly chromatic settings of verses from Psalms 2 and 23, Thomas Kelly, a fine boy soprano, sings the dreamy melodic line with angelic radiance but bends the "blue notes" ever so slightly, like a veteran jazz singer.
Besides these family glimpses, Stravinsky's solo songs include elegiac settings of verses by Dylan Thomas in memory of the poet, who at the time of his death in 1953 was planning to collaborate with Stravinsky on an opera, and by W. H. Auden in memory of John F. Kennedy.
In that year he produced three works for choir: Sept chansons (settings of verses by Éluard and others), Petites voix (for children's voices), and his religious work Litanies à la vierge noire, for female or children's voices and organ.
Between his Laibach and Olmütz appointments he worked on settings of verses by Richard Leander and Tirso de Molina, later collected as Volume I of Lieder und Gesänge ("Songs and Airs").
The focus is on the work of Derek Walcott, who is among the most widely admired poets writing in English today, and who will be present to read as well as to hear new settings of his verse by a range of American composers: Milton Babbitt, Charles Wuorinen, Bernard Rands and Tania León.
Settings of votive antiphons (verses preceding psalms and canticles), frequently, though not exclusively, texts in honour of the Virgin Mary, were popular in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Standards would rise and formerly illiterate brats in key stage II would relax after double quantum physics by dancing around the maypole singing settings of Horace's verse in Latin, just like in Michael Gove's dreams.
His final song cycle, La Courte Paille, settings of children's verse by the Belgian poet Maurice Carême was meant for Duval to sing to her little boy, the son of her marriage to Richard Schilling, but she gave no full public performance of the sequence.
Where the two men are both steeped in the lied tradition, and thus suited to the intense, painfully inflected settings of Wilfred Owen's verse which Britten - a pacifist who watched, like Auden, the war from across the Atlantic - interspersed among the Latin mass, Rebeka seemed an odd choice given her bel canto background.
