I Know the Music

This is an imaginative and accessible setting of Wilfred Owen’s unfinished poem I Know the Music which describes the sounds of the battlefield as musical, a lament for the loss of beauty in a time of unimaginable tragedy.  The sounds of bells, bugles and the countryside are brought to life in a work which mirrors both the pain of war and the comfort that music can bring.  There are two sections where the soprano solo comes to the fore and the strings provide a programmatic backdrop.