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DOVE

Sappho Sings

for SATB Choir and Orchestra

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JONATHAN DOVE

Sappho Sings

for SATB Choir and Orchestra

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EDITION

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ORCHESTRA

2 Flutes

2 Oboes

2 Clarinets in B- & A

2 Bassoons

2 Horns

2 Trumpets in C

Percussion (1 player):

Timpani (4 drums)

Crotales (2 octaves)

Strings

(Celli divide a4; at least one Double Bass must have low C)

Duration: c. 16 minutes

Commissioned by the Fairhaven Singers, conductor Ralph Woodward

First performed on 23 March 2019 at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds

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SAPPHO SINGS

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From Heaven to here

Down Your Orchard

Altars misty with incense

Cool water babbles through apple trees

Dappled with roses

Down through the shimmering leaves

Sleep slips

Horses grazing on clover out in the meadow

Here, Aphrodite, lift up the golden cup, filled, Honey mingled with holidays, And pour –

(Fragment 2)

2. You burn me

(Fragment 38)

3.

Love shook my heart

Like a storm among oak trees

(Fragment 47)

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4. Of love

The sight of you

Among all women, you

From every care

You could release me

………on the river’s bank

All night long

(Fragment 23)

5. Night Girls

All night long

Can sing of your love for the girl with flowers on her thighs.

Wake up! Call all the boys!

And we will see less sleep than the nightingales.

(Fragment 30)

6. Stars around the radiant moon

Darken

When over the earth

She in her fullness shines

Silver

(Fragment 34)

Sappho, translated by Alasdair Middleton

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Jonathan Dove

Jonathan Dove (b. 1959) studied composition with Robin Holloway at Cambridge and worked as a freelance repetiteur, animateur and arranger. His first major projects came via Glyndebourne, including his breakthrough commission, the opera Flight, for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. Other operatic works include The Adventures of Pinocchio, Swanhunter, children’s opera The Hackney Chronicles, When She Died – examining the response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales – and Man on the Moon. Works for orchestra include the trombone concerto Stargazer, and Moonlight Revels for trumpet and saxophone. Dove was presented with the Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music in 2008, and in 2010 A Song of Joys opened the Last Night of the Proms.

Jonathan Dove (*1959) studierte bei Robin Holloway an der Universität Cambridge Komposition und arbeitete als freischaffender Korrepetitor und Arrangeur. Erste größere Werke entstanden in Zusammenarbeit mit dem englischen Glyndebourne Festival, darunter die Oper Flight – ein Auftragswerk der Glyndebourne Touring Opera, das ihm zum Durchbruch verhalf. Sein Opernschaffen umfasst außerdem The Adventures of Pinocchio, Swanhunter, die Kinderoper The Hackney Chronicles, When She Died – das die Reaktionen auf den Tod von Prinzessin Diana beleuchtet – sowie Man on the Moon. Zu seinen Orchesterwerken zählen das Posaunenkonzert Stargazer sowie Moonlight Revels für Trompete und Saxofon. 2008 erhielt Dove den Ivor Novello Award für klassische Musik, und 2010 bildete A Song of Joys den Auftakt zur „Last Night of the Proms“.