‘[It] was one of those experiences that happens very rarely in anyone’s life and all those I have spoke to felt it a real privilege to be part of’
- Liz Westbrook, secretary, Bath Choral Society, on being part of the premiere in February 1999
'Brian Inglis' exciting new work, Visions of Sorrow and Joy, heard for the first time, was a powerful experience for all concerned'
- Bath Chronicle, February 1999
This piece combines two of my most important sources of inspiration from the beginning of my compositional career in the 1990s: the poetry of the First World War and the works of the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen. My starting point for this particular work was a desire to evoke Hildegard's vision of celestial music-making from her visionary book Scivias :
Then I saw the lucent sky, in which I heard different kinds of music, marvellously
embodying all the meanings I had heard before. I heard the praises of the joyous citizens of
Heaven ... and laments calling people back to those praises and joys; and the exhortations of
the virtues, spurring one another on to secure the salvation of the people ensnared by the
Devil.
This work is discussed in a paper published by Middlesex University. Click here to read more here.
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Recorded 13/12/1999, Bath Abbey: London Gala Orchestra/Matthew Bale
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Recorded 13/12/1999, Bath Abbey: Bath Choral Society/Matthew Bale
- ISMN: 9790570680849 (M570680849)
