Raymond, Timothy: Dreaming of Easter

Timothy Raymond) (*1953) chose a phrase from Sabine Baring-Gould's translation of the popular Basque Christmas carol ‘Sing Lullaby’ as the title of his new work. The carol melody, after its initial statement in a dreamlike passage near the beginning, undergoes a series of transformations, yet its ‘DNA’ is present in every single bar. Consisting of slow – at times, elegiac – music flanking fast central episodes, this is a short, hauntingly memorable orchestral piece by a modern master.

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