- Richard Rodney Bennett
Scena III (1977)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Written for the Park Lane Group's Young Artists and 20th Century Music Series
Programme Note
Scena III was written in August 1977 at the request of the Park Lane Group. Life Scena I (for piano) and Scena II (for solo cello) it is a short continuous work of a dramatic nature, containing several strongly contrasted tempi. It is prefaced by a quotation from e.e. cummings:
‘Then shall I turn my face, and hear
One bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.’
Richard Rodney Bennett
‘Then shall I turn my face, and hear
One bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.’
Richard Rodney Bennett