Michael John Trotta: Our Birth Is but a Sleep: Gemischter Chor mit Begleitung

A stunning a cappella setting employs straightforward rhythms and close harmonies to deliver the powerful imagery of Wordsworth’s timeless text “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting,The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.” An excerpted movement from Intimations of Immortality Duration ca. 3:30