general information

composition date
1949
duration
45 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes
Dedicatee
'For Serge Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra'
Opus
44

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (3 solo voices or more, choir(s) and orchestra)

detailed formation

Soloist
solo soprano, solo contralto, solo tenor

3 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 4 percussionists, timpani, other accessory [cow horn], 2 harp

information about the creation

date
July 9, 1949

Amsterdam, Holland Festival

interpreters

Jo Vincent, Kathleen Ferrier, Peter Pears, le chœur de la Radio Dutch et le Concertgebouw Orchestra, direction : Eduard van Beinum.

Part titles

  • Part I. Introduction (Anon. XVIe siècle) ; The Merry Cuckoo (Spenser) ; Spring (Nashe) ; The Driving Boy (George Peele - John Clare) ; The Morning Star (Milton)
  • Part II. Welcome, Maids Of Honour (Herrick) ; Waters above (Vaughan) ; Out on the Lawn (Auden)
  • Part III. When will my May come (Barnefield) ; Fair and Fair (George Peele) ; Sound the Flute (Blake)
  • Part IV. Finale: London, to thee I do present (Beaumont and Fletcher)

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