Par SAMUEL RHIAN. / Répertoire / Alto Solo et Flûte Traversière Clarinette en Sib,

This piece is a paraphrase of a song that Wood wrote between 30 January and 1 February 1983 to a poem by Robert Graves called ‘Bird of Paradise’.The music is continuous but falls into five sections of which the first threeare variations on the emerging material of the song. In the fourth (which is the loudest) the original vocal line may most clearly be heard: it has been somewhat extended…