• General information
  • Composition date: 1957
    
  • Duration: 10 mn
  • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
  • Opus: 58
  • Dedication: 'To Peg and Lu, from Ben, Peter and Julian'
  • Libretto (details, author):

    poètes chinois, traduits en anglais par Arthur Waley

• Type
  • Vocal music and instrument(s) [Voice(s) and/or choir(s) and plucked strings]

Premiere information

• Date: 17 June 1958
  Location:

  Aldeburgh Festival, Great Glemham House

  
  Performers:

  Peter Pears et Julian Bream.