• Composed 1958
Tenor, 7 obbligato instruments, string orchestra
Oct 16, 1958 • Peter Pears, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Schwarz • Leeds Festival, Town Hall, Leeds - On a poet's lips I slept
- Below the thunders of the upper deep
- Encinctured with a twine of leaves
- Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting...
- But that night when on my bed I lay
- She sleeps on soft, last breaths
- What is more gentle that a wind in summer?
- When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
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| • | | Britten Conducts Britten, Volume 4 DECCA | | Amazon: CD • mp3 | | • | September 1969 | LONDON-436 395-2 | | Peter Pears, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Osian Ellis, Denis Blyth, Roger Lord, Alexander Murray, Gervase de Peyer, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten | | Amazon: CD | | • | September 29, 1995 | EMI-7243 5 65899 2 6 | | John Mark Ainsley, Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury | | Amazon: CD | | • | 2005 | EMI | | Ian Bostridge, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle | | Amazon: CD • mp3 |
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