Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC772 TWO INSECT PIECES

• Date: 2 May 1935 >>
  Location: Dorking Halls (Leith Hill Musical Festival)

  Type of performance: Concert performance

  
  

  World Premiere

  UK Premiere

  Incomplete Performance

  
  

  Performers and other details:

  Sylvia Spencer ob, Millicent Silver pf

  'Grasshopper' movement only. Both movements were first performed together at a memorial concert to Sylvia Spencer on 7 March 1979, with Janet Craxton on oboe and Margot Wright on piano (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester).