Five Songs

Date of Composition: 
1979-2013
Duration: 
10'
Instrumentation: 
Duos
Chamber Instrumentation: 
soprano and piano

Five Songs is a collection, not a cycle, though there are threads of connection between the poems. They are all from the 19th C, when poetry was commonly read, and they all, in their own way, are "bright" poems. the tragic note is not sounded.

Include in Discography: 
include
Name of CD: 
There was a Child Went Forth/Songs of Nils Vigeland

Movement 1

The Lake Isle at Innisfree (William Butler Yeats)

Movement 2

Let us Play Yesterday(Emily Dickinson)

Movement 3

There is no God (Arthur Clough)

Movement 4

The Cricket and the Grasshopper (John Keats)

Movement 5

Pied Beauty (Gerard Manly Hopkins)
Instructions for Use: 
Click on any 'Movement' button to listen to a sample and view the score sample. If you wish to view a larger version of the score, click on the score sample to enlarge.
Performer: 
Delea Shand,soprano/NilsVigeland,piano
Recording Link: 
cdbaby