Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC838 TO LIE FLAT ON THE BACK

For high voice and piano

Composition date: 26 Oct 1937

First performance: 23 Apr 1985 >>

Type of performance: Radio broadcast

Location: BBC Radio 3

Performance details:

Neil Mackie ten, John Blakely pf

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.

It was published in 1937 by Boosey and Hawkes, and later as no. 1 of Fish in the unruffled lakes: six Auden settings in 1997.

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