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The Dark Gate
Audio
Score
Added by
Composed by
David Lancaster
Instrument(s)
piano, soprano (voice)
With electronics
no
Work premiered
August 2017
Venue of the premiere
United Kingdom
Duration
13 minutes
These five songs (sung without a break) set poetry by David Vogel, a Russian-born poet and novelist who died at Auschwitz in 1944. The title is derived from Vogel's only published collection of poems (1923). The Dark Gate was first performed at Late Music York in August 2017.
