“I wandered lonely as a cloud”, Op. 18

I wandered lonely as a cloud (2018)

Written for Esteli Gomez’s 2018 residency with Oregon Composers Forum, this joyful and serene setting of Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” comes alive as an extended Mozartean concert aria for soprano and miniature orchestra. The music shifts between lyrical, cantabile phrases that seem to float above the scene while shorter, playful figures evoke the dancing daffodils. The piece culminates in an elaborate coloratura passage, answered by an ebullient coda for instruments alone.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud