The Oxford Comment

Silver swan — Bob Chilcott


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For SATB double choir unaccompanied
This setting of Orlando Gibbons and Catullus is a re-working of Gibbons's celebrated seventeenth-century madrigal (of the same title) for five voices. It retains the lilting depiction of the swan and the original composer's love of antiphonal effects and rich texture.
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The Oxford CommentBy Oxford University Press