- General information
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Composition date:
1969
- Duration: 19 mn
- Publisher: Faber Music
- Opus: 84
- Dedication: 'To Tertia Liebenthal'
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Libretto (details, author):
‘Lyrics, Rhymes and Riddles by William Soutar’
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Composition date:
1969
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [Tenor and piano]
Detailed formation
- 1 solo tenor, 1 piano
Premiere information
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Date:
4 May 1971
Location:Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland
Performers:Peter Pears et Benjamin Britten.
Table of contents
- A Riddle (The Earth)
- A Laddie's Sang
- Nightmare
- Black Day
- Bed-time
- Slaughter
- A Riddle (The Child You Were)
- The Larky Lad
- Who are These Children?
- Supper
- The Children
- The Auld Aik