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For piano, string quartet and string orchestra, op. 16
Period of composition: 23 Jul - 2 Aug 1939
First performance: 27 Aug 1939 >>
Type of performance: Radio broadcast
Location: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Performance details:

Benjamin Britten pf, CBC String Orchestra, Alexander Chuhaldin cond

Genre: Orchestral
Duration: 8'
Commissioned:

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Dedication: 'Dedicated to Alexander Chuhaldin'

Russian-born Canadian violinist and conductor (1892-1951).

Notes

Inspired partly by the last line of Keats's unfinished poem Hyperion. In the draft and fair copy the various sections have titles (subsequently deleted by the composer):

'Chant'

'Fanfare' (7 before fig. 4)

'Chorale' (7 before fig. 14)

'Coda' (4 after fig. 17).

After the second broadcast with the composer as soloist the work was withdrawn by the composer.

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