Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

The Poet's Echo (1965)

for high voice and piano

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1965 - 23 aug 1965
    • Duration: 12 mn
    • Publisher: Faber Music
    • Opus: 76
    • Dedication: 'for Galya and Slava'
    • Libretto (details, author):

      Texte en russe d’Alexandre Poushkine

Detailed formation
  • 1 solo soprano [ou ténor] , 1 piano

Premiere information

  • Date: 2 December 1965
    Location:

    Moscou, conservatoire de musique


    Performers:

    Galina Vishnevskaya et Mstislav Rostropovitch.

Table of contents

  1. Echo
  2. My heart…
  3. Angel
  4. The Nightingale and the Rose
  5. Epigram
  6. Lines written during a sleeples night