Air and Angels

Anthony Powers

Year

2003


Duration

30'


Instrumentation

soprano, baritone, mixed chorus - 3.3.3.3 - 4.4.3.1 - timp-3perc-hrp-pft-egtr-bgtr - 12.10.8.8.6 (min.)


Genre

Orchestra


Text/Libretto

John Donne - 'Holy Sonnets' and 'Songs and Sonnets'


Commission

Three Choirs Festival Society


Premiere

Hereford Cathedral, 21 August 2003: Carys Lane, soprano / Matthew Brook, baritone / Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Geraint Bowen (cond.)


Publisher

Oxford University Press


Source

BMIC website;