Parry: Songs of Farewell
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Publisher: RSCM Press
ISBN: E0421
Composed between 1906 and 1915, ParryÔÇÖs Songs of Farewell represent
some of the profoundest a cappella literature of the late Romantic
era. As their collective title implies, the six motets are essentially
valedictory. While their contemplative, solemn mood may seem
symptomatic of the appalling conflagration of World War I, the motets
were ultimately a more personal statement by the composer as he
approached the milestone of 70. Dying unexpectedly from septicaemia
and the Spanish flu pandemic in October 1918, he did not survive to
see the Armistice.