Quilter: Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal - wind quintet

"Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It is like a sonnet in having fourteen iambic lines, but it is not rhymed (except that the word "me" is repeated at the ends of key lines), and it does not follow either the Shakespearean or Petrarchan organization. It was first published in 1847, in The Princess: A Medley.

Roger Cuthbert Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953) was a British composer, known particularly for his art songs. His songs, which number over a hundred, often set music to text by William Shakespeare and are a mainstay of the English art song tradition.

This piece, was composed in 1904.

It is a delightful piece, and suits the wind quintet.

The vocal melody is given to the oboe.

The “preview” downloads an mp3.

Check out my arrangements of some Quilter's other songs:

'O Mistress mine"

It was a lover and his lass.

My other Quilter arrangements are here and my other wind quintets are here.