Sung live at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, by Roberto Mancusi, with John Flinders, piano.
Genre: Vocal
Mood: Tragic
Forces: Male voice, Piano
Length: 3 Minutes
XL – Farewell to a Name and a Number (2006) – a setting of A E Housman for male voice & piano, 3’.
Farewell to a name and a number
Recalled again
To darkness and silence and slumber
In blood and pain.
So ceases and turns to the thing
He was born to be
A soldier cheap to the King
And dear to me;
So smothers in blood the burning
And flaming flight
Of valour and truth returning
To dust and night.
A E Housman
First performance:
9 Sep 2011, Roberto Mancusi and John Flinders, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London.