- Duration: 4 minutes
- Chorus: unaccompanied SATB
A beautiful setting of the iconic poem by Christina Rossetti, dealing with love and loss.
Remember(Vocal Score)
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Description
This setting of the iconic poem by Christina Rossetti began as a song for soprano – first with piano and then with orchestra. Another version followed for choir and string quartet, and it seemed inevitable that a purely a cappella setting would eventually appear.
The deep yearning of the words certainly calls out for musical expression and, with unadulterated vocal textures, it is possible for the full impact of bereavement on the human soul to be powerfully and uniquely conveyed.
The original instrumental introduction and interludes have word underlay rather than open vowel sounds, and it is important that these passages become contrasted in dynamic and timbre to the pillar-like components of Rossetti’s poetry.
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann’d:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Words: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
