A long cherished project has come to fruition. This was originally planned as a choral work, but it became evident that it would work much better as a song cycle. Guy has set eleven songs, all about love, and all about female poets, for Mezzo and piano. Up and coming mezzo Emily Hodkinson has a greed to give the premiere when Covid restrictions allow. The poems are two each by Christina Rossetti, Wendy Cope, Emily Dickinson, U A Fanthorpe and E Nesbit, framing a central poem by Elizabeth I.
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