Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Henry Purcell: Suite of Songs (1946)
transcribed for high voice and orchestra, with Peter Pears
arrangement
- General information
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Composition date:
1946
- Duration: 13 mn
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, 1956
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Composition date:
1946
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [Solo voice and orchestra]
Detailed formation
- 2 solo tenors [ou soprano] , 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 1 bassoon, 1 trumpet, 1 strings
Premiere information
Table of contents
- Let sullen discord smile
- Why should men quarrel?
- So when the glittering Queen of Night
- Thou tun'st this word
- 'Tis holiday — sound frame that brazen trumpet
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