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For tenor and baritone solos, small chorus and string quartet, string orchestra, piano, harp and timpani, op. 69
Composition date: ca. Jul 1963
First performance: 1 Sep 1963 >>
Type of performance: Concert performance
Location: Grand Theatre, Geneva
Performance details:

Peter Pears ten, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau bar, Le Motet de Geneve, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet cond

Genre: Choral
Text: Patrick Wilkinson, in Latin
Duration: 20'
Dedication: 'In honorem Societatis Crucis Rubrae kalendis septembribus A.S. MCMLXIII sollemnia saecularia Genave celebrantis hoc opus compositum illo primum die auditum est' 'To Fidelity Cranbrook'

Fidelity Cranbrook, the Dowager Countess of Cranbrook (1912-2009), the first Chairman of the Aldeburgh Festival.

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