Songs

Recitative

by Julian Philips From The Country of Larks (2021)

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Text

Recitative
English source: Robert Louis Stevenson

I began my little pilgrimage
in the most enviable of all humours
in which a person,
with a sufficiency of money
and a knapsack,
turns his back on a town
walks forwards
into a country
which he knows only
by the vague report of others.

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Autumn Effect' (1875)

Composer

Julian Philips

Julian Philips (born 1969) is a British composer.

Poet

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born and educated in Edinburgh,…

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