915BTC964964BBM/BTCsoundthetrumpetPurcell: Sound the trumpet, Z 323/3 [HP Six duets/1]For high and low voices and piano1Purcell realizationpre 1 Dec 19441117Probably Nahum Tate

From Birthday song for Queen Mary, 1694.

2.0001944pre 1 Dec 19441117194019441210000000709921914BTC963963BBM/BTCblessedvirginPurcell: The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation, Z 196For high voice and piano1Purcell realizationpre 1 Dec 19441116Nahum Tate7.0'For Margaret Ritchie'

Britten suggested some revisions to his publisher in 1955, but these were not adopted.

001944pre 1 Dec 1944916BTC965965BBM/BTCpetergrimesPeter GrimesOpera in three acts and a prologueop. 33331Stage workJan 1944111810 Feb 19451119

Britten and Pears began sketching the scenario of the opera as early as 1941.

Cast and orchestraMontagu Slater, derived from a poem by George Crabbe143.0'For the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, dedicated to the memory of Natalie Koussevitzky'001945Jan 1944 - 10 Feb 194566