Oxford University Press Seven Poems of Stillness - Tann - Solo Cello/Optional Narrator

Composer: Hilary Tann
Format: Sheet Music
Instrumentation: Solo Cello with optional Narrator

This continuous cycle (c.16 minutes without narrator, c.24 with narrator) intersperses seven poems by R.S. Thomas with seven movements for solo cello, exploring the poet's relationship to God. The music is evocative, moving, and thoughtfully sets the mood for the poem that it precedes. A recording of this work, performed by the cellist, Guy Johnson, is available from Ty Cerrd (TCR011).

Welsh-born composer, Hilary Tann (b.1947), lives near the Hudson River in upstate New York where she is the John Howard Payne Professor of Music at Union College. Her music is influenced by her childhood in the coal-mining valleys of South Wales, her strong identification with the natural world, and a deep interest in the traditional music of Japan.