The last movement is quite different, taking as its starting point the Venetian watercolours by Turner. The second movement is an impassioned cradle song that captures the atmosphere of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay, and the austere mood of J M Synge’s play Riders to the sea. The expansive opening movement evokes the world of A E Housman’s Shropshire Lad, and the turbulent contrasting music was inspired by Housman’s poem ‘On Wenlock Edge’. The first two movements also have direct links with texts that inspired Vaughan Williams.
It was completed in 1967, by which time he had lived in England for several years, and its programme is deeply rooted in British (and Irish) culture.
Herrmann’s last concert piece was a clarinet quintet entitled Souvenirs de voyage.
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