Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Nocturne (1958)
for tenor, seven instruments obbligato and string orchestra
- General information
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Composition date:
1958
- Duration: 25 mn
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Opus: 60
- Dedication: 'To Alma Malher'
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Libretto (details, author):
Poésies de Shelley, Tennyson, Coleridge, Middleton, Wordworth, Owen, Keats, Shakespeare.
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Composition date:
1958
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [1 male voice and single wind chamber orchestra]
Detailed formation
- soloist: 1 solo tenor
- 1 flute, 1 English horn, 1 clarinet, 1 bassoon, 1 horn, 1 timpani, 1 harp, strings
Premiere information
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Date:
16 October 1958
Location:Leeds Town hall, Leeds Centenary Festival
Performers:Peter Pears et le B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, direction : Rudolph Schwarz.
Table of contents
- Shelley : Prometheus Unbound
- Tennyson : The Kraken (basson obligato)
- Coleridge : The Wanderings of Cain (harpe obligato)
- Middleton : Blurt, Master Constable (cor obligato)
- Wordworth : The Prelude (1805) (timbales obligato)
- Owen : The Kind Ghosts (cor anglais ogligato)
- Keats : Sleep and Poetry (duo flûte et clarinette)
- Shakespeare : Sonnet 43