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Joby Talbot : The Wishing Tree

Publisher Chester Music Ltd
Category
 Chorus a cappella / Chorus plus 1 instrument
Year Composed 2002
Duration
 4 Minutes
Chorus 6 male voices
Orchestration
 6 male voices
Availability Sale from Musicroom or Music Dispatch  Explain this...
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Full Score(s):  CH65538

Programme Note

The feeling I would most readily associate with the Elizabethan madrigalists is a sense of perpetual yearning. Kathleen Jamie's poem expresses just such a sense of longing but bypasses the Arcadian idyll to link people's expectations & desires more directly to the natural world. My music is accordingly punchy & angular - a sense of desperation creeping in as words & syllables are bounced from one side of the ensemble to the other.

Reviews

  • Joby Talbot's The Wishing Tree (words by Kathleen Jamie) traded on rapid hocketing and changes of register and dynamic, at once medieval and minimalist, and told of a composer confident in his individual inner voice.
    Stephen Pettit, Evening Standard, 26/07/2002

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