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BTC871.1 HARK THE ECH'ING AIR! [ORCHESTRAL VERSION]

For high voice and orchestra
Composition date: Feb 1963
Genre: Purcell realization
Voice and orchestra
Text: Anon., from ''The Fairy Queen''
Performing forces:

2 fl (=picc), 2 ob, 2 bn - str

Notes

Arranged along with Not all my torments and Take not a woman's anger ill for performances by Peter Pears in Moscow and Leningrad in March 1963. They were followed on these occasions by So when the glittering queen of night and 'Tis holiday - sound fame thy brazen trumpet from the Suite of songs from Orpheus Britannicus. Britten had intended to replace the latter two songs with two new items to create a second suite of Purcell realizations for voice and orchestra.

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