"Woolrich's spare language artfully crystallises Rossetti's nostalgia, and caresses Dickinson's mordant perceptions" The Times
Availability
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Programme Notes
There are six songs (and a short piano interlude) in this eight-minute cycle. The words are by the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) and the American Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). They explore the turning of the year from summer to winter and the death of love.
And Winter comes was commissioned by Leeds Lieder+.
Reviews
"Woolrich's flinty little eight-minute cycle to poems by Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson
received its world premiere in a performance by the mezzo Anna Stephany, accompanied by Jonathan
Fisher... In the six tiny songs of And Winter Comes, Woolrich's spare language artfully
crystallises Rossetti's nostalgia, and caresses Dickinson's mordant perceptions."
The Times (Hilary Finch), 6 October 2009