Dreamless Sleep
Christopher Gainey
About this work:
Dreamless Sleep is excerpted from a ballet entitled No Sleep for the Wicked. Rather than having a concrete plotline, this ballet deals specifically with issues of an insomniac’s changing perception of night. This piece for cello solo represents an almost nostalgic longing for sleep that remains just out of reach. The title is taken from a poem by Lord Byron:
“The silence of that dreamless sleep,
I envy now too much to weep…”
Version: cello solo
Year composed: 2008
Duration: 00:06:00
Ensemble type: Solo instrument, non-keyboard:Cello
Instrumentation: 1 Cello