for narrator, SATB choir, and orchestraThis work was written for a BBC broadcast in 1938 and is now published for the first time. The ten sections include a strongly uplifting central section and conclude with a setting of the Veni creator spiritus. Together they create a unified and strikingly individual work.Orchestral material is available on hire.
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
"Despite the variety of sung and spoken texts, Britten wrote a unified and strikingly individual work." - Austrlian Music Teacher, May 02
"It makes an excellent half-length piece for a choral recital, the duration being 42 minutes . . . The vocal score is well presented and clearly printed. . . Vintage Britten in an authoritative new edition." - Choir & Organ, December 2001
