Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC1113 PURCELL: TAKE NOT A WOMAN'S ANGER ILL, Z 609/11 [THREE SONGS/3]

For high voice and orchestra

Composition date: Feb 1963

Genre: Purcell realization

Text: Robert Gould

From The rival sisters.

Performing forces:

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

Duration: 12'

Arranged along with Hark the ech'ing air! and Not all my torments 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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