composer: Gavin Bryars
translator: J. M. Synge
Premiere: November 27, 2003 Huddersfield, St Paul’s Hall (UK) Huddersfield Festival 2003 · Red Byrd
Instrumentation: soprano, tenor, bass and lute
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 60' 0''
Year of composition: 2003/2005
Edition: performance score
Language: English
Series: Choral Music of Our Time
74 Pages - Saddle stitching
1. Laura being dead, Petrarch finds trouble in all the things of the earth - 2. He asks his heart to raise itself up to God - 3. He wishes he might die and follow Laura - 4. Laura is ever present to him - 5. He considers that he should set little store on earthly beauty - 6. He recalls his visions of her - 7. He finds comfort and rest in his sorrows - 8. He ceases to speak of her graces and her virtues which are no more - 9. He considers the reasons for his verses - 10. He is jealous of the heaven's and the earth - 11. The fine time of the year increases Petrarch's sorrow - 12. He understands the great cruelty of death - 13. The sight of Laura's house reminds him of the great happiness he has lost - 14. He sends his rhymes to the tomb of Laura to pray her to call him to her - 15. Only he who mourns her and Heaven that possesses her knew her while she lived - 16. Petrarch is unable to contain his grief - 17. Laura waits for him in heaven - soprano, tenor, bass and lute
