Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen (1967)

reduced concert version produced and edited by Britten and Imogen Holst

by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

general information

composition date
1967
publisher
édition du compositeur

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Solo voice and chamber orchestra)

information about the creation

date
June 25, 1967
location

Aldeburgh.

interpreters

Peter Pears, voix.

observations

Partie de clavecin arrangée par Philip Ledger.

Part titles

  1. Oberon's birthday
  2. Night and silence
  3. The sweet passion
  4. Epithalamium

 

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Created the same year
Composed the same year
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