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BTC965 PURCELL: THE BLESSED VIRGIN'S EXPOSTULATION, Z 196

For high voice and piano
Composition date: pre 1 Dec 1944
Genre: Purcell realization
Text: Nahum Tate

A paraphrase of Luke 2:42.

Duration: 7'
Dedication: 'For Margaret Ritchie'

Mabel (Margaret) Ritchie (1903-1969), English soprano, creator of the role of Lucia in The rape of Lucretia, op. 37 and Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, op. 39.

Notes

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

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