1996

a cycle of three settings of poems b James K. Baxter for SATB choir and soloists

By:

• David Griffiths

Duration:

11' 00"

Contents:

Lie deep my love; Earth does at Length; Blow wind of Fruitfulness

Availability

• This work has a score and 2 recordings

Programme Note

Lie Deep My Love was finished in 1996 and written especially for the New Zealand National Youth Choir who have since performed them frequently. The first song, Lie Deep My Love, depicts the grief and longing for a departed love; the second, Earth does at length, the inevitability of our mortality; and in the third, Blow, wind of fruitfulness, the spirit of the wind is implored to stir life into all creation again.

Use is made of low bass tessitura, solo voices and canons to create specific colours and textures in the vocal writing and to help characterise those images of New Zealand Baxter was so fond of depicting.

Text Note:

Text by James K. Baxter

Difficulty:

Advanced

Influences

• Language and Literature

Performance History

	18 Apr 1998	Performed by the New Zealand National Youth Choir (now Tower New Zealand Youth Choir) cond. Karen Grylls; Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Christchurch
		Karen Grylls    Tower New Zealand Youth Choir