The cantata A Sheen of Dew on Flowers sets love poetry from across the ages, and was originally commissioned by Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells. This score is an arrangement of the fifth movement of the work. Celebrating the bi-centenary of Queen Victoria's and Prince Albert's birth, A Sheen of Dew on Flowers was premiered on 11 April 2019 at the Barbican Centre, London by Britten Sinfonia and Britten Sinfonia Voices (director Eamonn Dougan), with Kelley O'Connor (Mezzo-Soprano) and Tobias Greenhalgh (Baritone), conducted by Natalie Murray Beale.