Le Pont Mirabeau (2004)

Setting of Apollinaire's poem as part of New French Song - twenty songs by contemporary British composers setting nineteenth or twentieth century French poetry.

soprano & piano

Duration

6 minutes 30"

Commissioning details

Commissioned by Alison Smart and Katharine Durran

Performances

2 March 2008 - Moffat, Scotland; Alison Smart - soprano, Katharine Durran - piano

Tuesday 13 July 2004 - Purcell Room, London; Alison Smart - soprano, Katharine Durran - piano

Reviews
”In first place I'd put Will Todd, for Le Pont Mirabeau, with its flowing river Seine accompaniment underpinning a memory of lost love in the vocal line. The piano and voice were imaginatively integrated, and there was a powerful sense of atmosphere.”

George Hall/ The Independent/ 2004