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‘Now sleeps the crimson petal’: Britten's other ‘Serenade’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Donald Mitchell
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Britten's Serenade, op.31, for tenor, horn, and strings, was first performed at the Wigmore Hall, London, on 15 October 1943, with Peter Pears, Dennis Brain and an ad hoc orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr. It was dedicated to Edward Sackville-West.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 169: 50th Anniversary 1939–1989 , June 1989 , pp. 22 - 27
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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