Bénédiction

Jonathan Harvey
Composed between 1970 and 1975.

Publications	Correspondances (1975)
Recordings	Dreamscapes (1977)
Poems	Bénédiction
Catalogue	http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph020595714&context=L&vid=SOLO&lang=en_US&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=local&query=any,contains,jonathan%20harvey%20baudelaire&sortby=rank&offset=0
Spotify	https://open.spotify.com/track/3q6Vvc8tjjhuRb6wvyHlZn?si=Se0LABwXQjWncbNpov1Djw
Languages	French
Scorings	solo voice, piano
Genres	Classical
Tessitura	high voice
Notes	Only the 15th, 17th, 18th and 19th (final) quatrains of the poem are included in the poem. Performed at Purcell Room on 12 December 1977 by Meriel and Peter Dickinson, along with the Debussy Cinq poemes de Baudelaire (perfomed by Ian and Jennifer Partridge)