general information

composition date
1946
duration
26 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes
Dedicatee
'For Peter'
Opus
35

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Unspecified solo voice and piano)

detailed formation

Soloist
solo tenor [ou soprano]

piano

information about the creation

date
November 22, 1946

Londres, Wigmore Hall

interpreters

Peter Pears et Benjamin Britten.

Part titles

  1. O my blacke Soule
  2. Batter my heart
  3. O might thoses sighes and teares
  4. Oh, to vex me
  5. What if this present
  6. Since she whom I loved
  7. At the round earth's imagined corners
  8. Thou Hast made me
  9. Death, be not proud

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