The Stormy Petrel: Voice + Piano Score (Bisel Classics 290) (German Edition)

In his song ‘Stormy Petrel’ Chevalier Sigismund Neukomm put to music another poem by the English author Barry Cornwall, and hereby deepened a cooperation that was intensifying in the same year as the poet bid farewell to his career and fully dedicated himself to being an attorney.

Even though the basicatmosphere of the work tells of the particular veneration Neukomm nurtured for his master Joseph Haydn, we do find many elements of tone painting and a deeply romantic setting.

Another song by a composer unjustly forgotten which tells about his great appreciation for and understanding of the human voice.