DESCRIPTION:
Benjamin Britten

Serenade for tenor, horn and strings op.31

Prologue 0:00
Pastoral - The Evening Quatrains (Charles Cotton) 1:19
Nocturne - Blow, bugle, blow (Alfred Tennyson) 5:16
Elegy - The Sick Rose (William Blake) 8:51
Dirge - Lyke-Wake Dirge (Anonymous) 13:45
Hymn - Hymn to Diana (Ben Jonson) 17:42
Sonnet - To Sleep (John Keats) 19:42
Epilogue 23:37

Peter Pears
Dennis Brain
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Hollingsworth
Live recording, 30.VII.1953