Requiescat (2024)
Colin Eatock
| Product ID | SON00002369 |
| Composer | Colin Eatock |
| Duration | 08:00 min |
| Genre | Classical, Concert piece, Chamber music |
| Instrumentation | Soprano and strings |
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Requiescat (2024)
| SKU | SON00002369 |
| Composer | Colin Eatock |
| Arranger | |
| Genre | Classical Concert piece Chamber music |
| Instrumentation | Soprano and strings |
| Free description | For soprano, violin, cello and theorbo |
| Grade | 6 |
| Duration | 08:00 min |
| Year | 2024 |
Program Notes
For soprano, violin, cello and theorbo
The composer writes: This composition was inspired by a conversation with a friend about sadness in music. He suggested several symphonic movements as candidates for the title of "the saddest music in the world"; but I held firm to my conviction that the saddest music ever penned was the aria "When I am Laid," from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
I'm pleased to acknowledge that my setting of Oscar Wilde's poem Requiescat owes much to Purcell's "When I am Laid." Like Purcell's famous aria, my song is a "baroque" setting: a passacaglia, in a slow 3/4 metre. As well, my text – written by Wilde after the death of his sister, Isola, at the tender age of nine – is intensely tragic.