i carry your heart
This recording was made by Diana Moore and John Reid for Postive Note films during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown. www.positivenote.co.uk
The original version for voice and cello was composed as a wedding gift to friends of the composer, performed by Philippa Reeves and Claudine Cassidy in April 2003. A new arrangement for voice and piano was commissioned by 'Celebrating English Song' and publicly premiered by Julianne de Villiers and Christopher Gould in Tardebigge, Worcestershire, 25th July 2004. It can be performed as a group of three Cummings songs with 'who knows if the moon's a balloon' and 'maggie and millie and molly and may'.
mezzo-soprano and piano or mezzo soprano and cello
E. E. Cummings
Celebrating English Song 2004
St Bartholomew’s Church, Church Lane (off High House Lane), Tardebigge B60 3AH 🇬🇧
Julianne de Villiers (mezzo soprano) and Christopher Gould (piano)