Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC839 NIGHT COVERS UP THE RIGID LAND

For high voice and piano

Composition date: 27 Oct 1937

First performance: 22 Nov 1985 >>

Type of performance: Concert performance

Location: Wigmore Hall, London

Performance details:

Patricia Rozario sop, Graham Johnson pf

Genre: Solo vocal

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

The poem, from Auden's collection Look, stranger!, was dedicated to Britten.

Duration: 2'

The song was probably intended for the never completed second volume of On this island (May-Oct 1937).

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