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Hubert Parry

The Lotos-Eaters

Movements

  1. There is sweet music here that softer falls - Andante tranquillo (Chorus)
  2. Why are we weighed upon with heaviness - Allegro (Chorus)
  3. Lo! in the middle of the wood (Soprano solo)
  4. Hateful is the dark-blue sky - Allegro moderato
  5. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream - Andante tranquillo (Soprano solo)
  6. Dear is the memory of our wedded lives - Moderato, lento (Men's Chorus)
  7. But, prompt on beds of amaranth and moly - Andantino (Soprano solo)
  8. The Lotos blooms below the barren peak - Allegro tranquillo, andante (Chorus and soprano solo)

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