Diana Rowan - Harpist: Music

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Your Soul is a Chosen Landscape (adapted Diana Rowan: Mera Merose [Day by Day], Greece/A Ei D’ir Deryn Du [Blackbird, will you go?], Wales/Clair de Lune, Gabriel Faure): Faure’s piece sets the Paul Verlaine poem from which I’ve taken the first line as the title of this set. The quote is both mysterious and familiar, full of promise. Faure’s work is a vocal piece, from which I’ve quoted the piano accompaniment, the latter sometimes considered the first example of an equally beautiful duet part. The Greek song is often sung at the end of weddings, as dawn rises. The Welsh piece asks the blackbird to find one’s true love. It has an interesting lyrical form, trading one line in Welsh, one in English. Spanning a continent and hundreds of years, these songs sit happily together, highlighting each other’s golden beauty.