Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC1122 SONGS AND PROVERBS OF WILLIAM BLAKE

For baritone and piano, op. 74

Subtitle: For baritone and piano

Other titles: Songs and sentences of William Blake

Original title.

Composition date: 6 Apr 1965

First performance: 24 Jun 1965 >>

Type of performance: Church performance

Location: Aldeburgh Parish Church, Aldeburgh Festival

Performance details:

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau bar, Benjamin Britten pf

Genre: Solo vocal

Text: William Blake (1757-1827)

Selected by Peter Pears from the Songs of experience, the Auguries of innocence and the the Proverbs of hell by William Blake.

Duration: 22'

Dedication: 'For Dieter: the past and the future'

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (b. 1925), German lyric baritone and conductor.

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