The Sweet Primroses is a work by Judith Weir for Mezzo-Soprano Voice and Viola. Commissioned by the University of Birmingham for the CrossCurrents Festival 2016 the first performance was in February2016 at the University's Elgar Concert Hall. A full performance lasts around 3 minutes.  When composing this piece Weir challenged herself to write down as much as she could remember of one ofher favourite English folk songs. The Voice sings the resulting narrative while the Viola part represents the limits of memory.

Par D'ADAMO DANIEL. Lips, your lips, based on texts by the composer, exploit vocal sounds produced inside the mouth to the exclusion of traditional singing. It is an authentic sound theater where the characters are the character traits of themezzo-soprano on stage and its duplication projected by the speakers. The principal subject of the text of this first piece of 'The Lips Cycle' is telling and listening, transmission and reception, the production of meaningthrough words and by the voice that pronounces and sings them./ Répertoire / Mezzo-Soprano et Electronique