A Letter to a Dying Man
Ben Lunn

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Instrumentation

Baritone
1
French Horn
1
Strings
20

Additional Information

'..this was an interesting work showing Ben Lunn’s increasingly interesting development as a writer..' 

P.G. MusicWeb International

 

Commissioned for the 'Loss and Hope' memorial concert, A Letter to a Dying Man is a setting of a text by the Zen monk Bassui.

‘The essence of your mind is not born, so it will never die. It is not an existence, which is perishable. It is not an emptiness, which is mere void. It has neither colour nor form. It enjoys no pleasures and suffers no pains…Think only of this. You will need no more. Covet nothing. Your end which is endless is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air.’ – Bassui

Tags

Zen
baritone
horn
strings

Details

Year
Score file
Ben Lunn - A Letter to a Dying Man (2014).pdf
Minutes
6

Recordings

Date published
2014
Date recorded
2014
Performers
Tianyi Lu (Conductor) Adam Jonelius (Baritone) Alexander Stead (Horn) RWCMD Strings
Record company
None
Title
A Letter to a Dying Man
Venue
Dora Stouzker Hall
Media link
a-letter-to-a-dying-man
Date published
2015
Date recorded
2014
Performers
Tianyi Lu (Conductor) Adam Jonelius (Baritone) Alexander Stead (Horn) RWCMD Strings
Record company
None
Title
A Letter to a Dying Man
Venue
Dora Stouzker Hall
Media link
B. LUNN - A LETTER TO A DYING MAN [für Bariton, Horn und Streichorchester, 2014]