general information

composition date
1943
duration
24 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes
Dedicatee
'To Edward Sackville-West'
Opus
31

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Voice(s) and/or choir(s) and ensemble)

detailed formation

Soloist
solo tenor

horn, strings

information about the creation

date
October 15, 1943

Londres, Wigmore Hall

interpreters

Peter Pears, Dennis Brain, direction : Walter Goehr.

Part titles

  • Prologue
  1. Pastoral (Cotton)
  2. Nocturne (Tennyson)
  3. Elegy (Blake)
  4. Dirge (Anon. 15.th)
  5. Hymn (Jonson)
  6. Sonnet (Keats)
  • Epilogue

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