Shelley’s Summer Poems on The Lost Chord

Shelley’s Summer Poems on The Lost Chord

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This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” our focus will be on works inspired by seasonal poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley and others.

We’ll hear Geoffrey Bush’s “A Summer Serenade,” composed in 1948. The seven movement work is based on poems by Shelley, James I of Scotland, Samuel Daniel, William Blake, Thomas Heywood, and the ever-prolific Anonymous.

Then we’ll have Arnold Bax’s rarely-heard “Enchanted Summer,” from 1918. The text is from Act II, Scene 2, of Shelley’s “Prometheus Unbound.” Composed in the middle of a string of Bax’s better-known nature poems, including “Into the Twilight” and “In the Fairy Hills” on the one hand, and “Nympholept” and “The Garden of Fand” on the other, the work begins with a depiction of light and shadow across a forest floor, mysterious caves and crags, and musical evocations of woodland spirits; continues with nightingales, in the second part; and two fauns, commenting on the wondrous things they have witnessed, in the third.

I hope you’ll join me for “Summer Shelley, Some Are Not,” this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.


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