Samuel, Rhian: La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Rental
Words by John Keats
1982, rev. 1987
Full score, vocal score and instrumental parts
Duration: 14 minutes
For SATB choir with two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, timpani, percussion (two players), celeste, harp and strings
Joint winner, Rudolph Nissim Award, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 1983
1st perf: St Louis Conservatory of Music Chorus and Orchestra, Richard Holmes (cond), St Louis Conservatory of Music, St Louis, Missouri, USA, April 1983
This is well-integrated, well-shaped music, sensitively tuned to the atmosphere of the poetry that inspired it.
James Wierzbicki, St Louis Globe-Democrat, 2 May 1983