The Garden of Love

Benjamin Britten
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, for oboe, op. 49

1. 1. Pan
   2. Phaeton
   3. Niobe
   4. Bacchus
   5. Narcissus
   6. Arethusa

Jacob TV
The garden of love, for oboe and electronics

Icarus vs Muzak
Orfeo Manfredi, oboe

THE GARDEN OF LOVE

I went to the Garden of Love.
and saw what I never had seen:
A chapel was built in the midst,
where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this chapel were shut,
and ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door;
So I turn’d to the Garden of Love,
that so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,
and tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
and binding with briars, my joys and desires.

William Blake

Special thanks to Silvano Ghinolfi from Banca Generali private banking