This is the third movement of Sappho Fragments, an art song for Soprano by composer G. Blake Harrison-Lane. The songs are settings of text by the Greek lyric poet Sappho, who was born between 630 and 612 BCE. This suite of songs is an ongoing song cycle that uses translations of what remains of Sappho’s poetry in short songs reflecting on the nearly twenty-seven century journey that the words took to reach us here today.

This recording is the third movement, "Death," which uses the text below: Death is an evil, for the gods choose breath; Had Death been good the gods had chosen Death.