SERENADE FOR TENOR, HORN AND STRING

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Benjamin Britten

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Benjamin Britten

Introduction

Britten is one of the best composers of the twentieth century literary taste. Apart from the sources for his operas (provided based on works by great authors like Shakespeare, Henry James, Thomas Mann or Herman Melville), always had a special sensitivity when choosing poems to his songs. Britten composed Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra in the United States in 1939 (Bridcut, 2006, 87). Divided into ten parts and extracts of Rimbaud's prose poems, Benjamin Britten achieves ...