Winter Words

Song cycle by Benjamin Britten to poems by Thomas Hardy for high voice and piano; first performed at Harewood House, Leeds, on 8 October 1953, by Peter Pears. The titles of the songs are: 1. ‘At Day-close in November’; 2. ‘Midnight on the Great Western’; 3. ‘Wagtail and Baby’; 4. ‘The Little Old Table’; 5. ‘The Choirmaster's Burial’; 6. ‘Proud Songsters’; 7. ‘At the Railway Station’; 8. ‘Before Life and After’.