Uneasy vespers II : choir, solo vocal ensemble (SSM-sATTBB), orchestra /
Pratt, Stephen,1947-
Simpson, Matt.
Launton : Edition HH,
c2008.
"Uneasy Vespers is concerned with ... the development of the atomic bomb and the devastation and human suffering that followed its deployment for the first time in August 1945"--Composer's note.
Libretto by Matt Simpson
Duration: ca. 55:00.
Performance and composer's notes in English and German.
Prologue -- Was there ever a time? -- We are the fiction makers -- Posuerunt me -- I came to, naked and in darkness -- Attendite.
Atomic bomb
Cantatas, Secular.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra