- Donnacha Dennehy
He Wishes his Beloved were Dead (2010)
(from That the Night Come)- G Schirmer Inc (World)
- piano
- Soprano[=Mezzo-soprano]
- 4 min
- W.B. Yeats
- English
Programme Note
He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead is from the song cycle That the Night Come, a setting of six poems by W.B. Yeats, originally for soprano and ensemble, and commissioned by Dawn Upshaw, with funds provided by the Arts Council of Ireland.