This setting of nine poems by Paul Verlaine was considered harmonically adventurous when it appeared in the 1890s.
Smartly dressed in this setting of declining gentility, Elsie spoke to Owen's mother with a lively courtesy.
In this setting of a text by Goethe, Proserpina, a daughter of Jupiter, finds herself in Hades, abducted by Pluto to be his queen.
This setting of ancient texts and modern poetry was the last piece that Grisey composed before he died suddenly in 1998.
I Do is the final work in Michael Clark's trilogy of Stravinsky ballets, and with this setting of the monumental score Les Noces, he demonstrates just how profoundly the project has been all about the music.
In this setting of glass and glitter and artificial light — an extraordinary London, such as he had looked for in the streets when he had just arrived — she was tall and soft and coarse and quite luscious.
He shaped the "Laudate Pueri" with the impetuousness you might expect in a Monteverdi madrigal more than in a sacred work, but that made all the difference: this setting of Psalm 112 should have an ecstatic undercurrent.
Within a year Schmidt was dead, and so did not live to see Europe overtaken by the apocalypse that this setting of the Book of Revelation foreshadows, and the destruction of the tradition that his music embodied.
There is a wonderfully organic quality in this setting of poems by Nigyar Rafibeili: its flute line seems to arise naturally from the piano, and the vocal line seems to emerge from the flute timbre.
Though inspired by that wrenching experience, this setting of nine sonnets about Donne's struggle with death and religion was also meant to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Henry Purcell's death.
And ever since its premiere in 1958, this setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, Stravinsky's longest liturgical work, has earned little love, some respect and a lot of critical second-guessing.
