A Portrait of Christina Rossetti (Goblin Market)

Commissioned note

Commissioned by Louis Jameson and the Trio Lavolta

Contents note

1. Prelude
   
2. Silence of love that cannot sing again
   
3. Goblin Market
   
4. One whistled like a bird
   
5. And knew not was it night or day as she turned home alone
   
6. Cheek to cheek and breast to breast, locked together in one nest
   
7. As if her heart would break
   
8. And for the first time in her life began to listen and look
   
9. Pluck them and suck them, pomegranates, figs
   
10. Its bounce was music to her ear
    
11. She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth
    
12. Chorale: Is it death or is it life?
    
13. To strengthen whilst one stands

Text note

Words by Christina Rossetti

Performance history