Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (1946)

for high voice and piano

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1946 - 19 aug 1946
    • Duration: 26 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
    • Opus: 35
    • Dedication: 'For Peter'
Detailed formation
  • 1 solo tenor [ou soprano] , 1 piano

Premiere information

  • Date: 22 November 1946
    Location:

    Londres, Wigmore Hall


    Performers:

    Peter Pears et Benjamin Britten.

Table of contents

  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