Godfrey - The Mirror of Love

Romantic piano work from a former rock musician.

A slice of contemporary yet highly romantic piano music from a British composer, pianist and former member of 1970s rock band The Enid.

This popular pieces comes Robert John Godfrey's album 'The Art of Melody' in which he took some of his previous compositions and reworked them for piano. 

The Mirror of Love is based on Godfrey's original composition of more than 40 years ago, The Lovers. Unashamedly 'Rachmaninoveske' as he puts it, the composition looks back at young and painful love 'through the other end of the telescope'.

Godfrey says his inspiration for the work is Shakespeare's 76th Sonnet:

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.