The Everlasting Voices

(2015)

Duration: 4’13 minutes

SATB choir

First performance: Brussels Chamber Choir, Helen Cassano, 11.12.14, Notre Dame du Bon Secours, Brussels

Listen to The Everlasting Voices by Alan Charlton, performed by the Brussels Chamber Choir, conducted by Helen Cassano, from the album Made in Belgium:

Programme Note

This work was premiered during the Brussels Chamber Choir`s visit to Milan in the summer of 2015. The text is by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) from his early cycle ‘The Wind Among the Reeds’ (1899), which was written at a time when he was fascinated