The Glory and the Dream, Opus 7

(Settings of extracts from William Wordsworth’s nature poetry.)

Year: 2007/8

Orchestration: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 B flat clarinets, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 french horns, 2 B flat trumpets, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, timpani, snare drum, tubular bells, glockenspiel, xylophone, celesta, soprano and strings.

Duration: ca. 28 minutes

Program Note:

Its six sections in the main lament the loss of childhood wonder in nature but welcome its replacement by a pantheistic view of creation.