Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC835 THE SUN SHINES DOWN

For high voice and piano

Composition date: Oct 1937

Genre: Solo vocal

Text: W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

Duration: 2'

The song was probably intended for the never completed second volume of On this island, op. 11.

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