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BTC405 THE FUGITIVES

For mixed voices and piano or strings
Composition date: 1926
First performance: 30 Aug 2009 >>
Type of performance: Concert performance
Location: Aldeburgh Parish Church
Performance details:

The choir of Hendon, St Mary, Richard Morrison cond

Genre: Choral
Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Britten uses only verse 1 of Shelley's poem.

Notes

The accompaniment is written in two staves but looks as if it was intended to be arranged for strings, as there is a marking for pizzicato in bars 2-3 and 6, and arco in bar 8.

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