Excerpts from Coleridge's "Hymn Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni," Psalm 104, and Shelley's Prometheus Unbound are spoken before each movement of this work, to which Peter Maxwell Davies wrote a sequel in 2001.
The second movement ends with an emphatic organ part, while a "wordless" female chorus and a wind machine also make appearances. Excerpts from Coleridge's "Hymn Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni," Psalm 104, and Shelley's Prometheus Unbound are spoken before each movement of this work, to which Peter Maxwell Davies wrote a sequel in 2001. The homesickness of the person who inspired much of this work is represented by a quote from The Lark Ascending, and the line "I do not regret the journey" from that person's recovered diary concludes the piece. FTP, the score to a film about Robert Scott was reworked into what 7th symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams?
The second movement ends with an emphatic organ part, while a "wordless" female chorus and a wind machine also make appearances.
Sinfonia Antartica (accept Vaughan Williams's Seventh Symphony or equivalents before "seventh" is read)