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Lachrymae

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Lachrymae

Work for viola and piano by Benjamin Britten, ‘Reflections on a Song of John Dowland’, composed in 1950 and first performed at Aldeburgh, England, on 20 June 1950. It was arranged for viola and string orchestra in 1976 and first performed in Recklinghausen, Germany, on 3 May 1977.
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Maxim Rysanov was the self-effacing, intensely poetic viola player in the Lachrymae and the Woolrich, while Mark Padmore sang Birtwistle, Handel and Britten with equal assurance, unswerving musicality and fabulously clear enunciation, which was just as well in the circumstances.
Britten Sinfonia by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
The three other pieces, Temporal Variations (1936), A Charm of Lullabies (1947), and Lachrymae (1976) are a bit too serious and somber for my taste.
Britten: Simple Symphony; Temporal Variations; A Charm of Lullabies; ... by Sensible Sound
More Britten comes from Bedford and the Northern Sinfonia - the Simple Symphony, Lachrymae, Temporal Variations, the Suite on English Folk Tunes, and A Charm of Lullabies sung by Catherine WynRodgers.
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