Scenes from a Wessex Life

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tenor, piano (14')

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Scenes from a Wessex Life is a song cycle of six poems by Thomas Hardy for tenor and piano; the first performance was given by tenor Robert Tilson and pianist Neil Crossland in a Harrow Summer Music Festival recital in July 2018.

 

The song cycle was later awarded an honourable mention in Abundant Silence's international composition competition and shortlisted for the National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Composition Award.