Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Serenade (1943)

for tenor solo, horn and strings

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1943
    • Duration: 24 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
    • Opus: 31
    • Dedication: 'To Edward Sackville-West'
Detailed formation
  • 1 solo tenor, 1 horn, strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 15 October 1943
    Location:

    Londres, Wigmore Hall


    Performers:

    Peter Pears, Dennis Brain, direction : Walter Goehr.

Table of contents

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