Tag: William Mathias

• Reis glorios

  July 23, 2020

  Classical music, Orchestral, Overture, Song, Vocal

  Carl Nielsen, Guiraut de Bornelh, jean sibelius, Schönberg, William Mathias

  Five pieces for the Summer sunrise: Concert: First, Reis glorios (Glorious King), a 12th century alba by Guiraut de Bornelh, who was styled the ‘master of the troubadours’. The alba (Occitan) or alborada (Spanish) or aubade (French) is a dawn song. After the (hopeful, on the part of the singer, anyway) seduction of the evening…