for SATB unaccompaniedIn this beguiling setting of 'A Dream' from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, Skempton weaves a gentle and chromatic melody through harmonies that are pure yet richly expressive.
Howard Skempton (b.1947)
"As usual with Skempton, the SATB texture is euphonious, the text setting clear and almost entirely syllabic - there is rigour at work beneath the amiable surface, though that surface here is troubled by chromatics and unexpected harmonies, capturing the darker tones of Blake's reverie." - Matthew Greenall, The Singer August 08
