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The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31, is a song cycle written in 1943 by Benjamin Britten for tenor, solo horn and a string orchestra.Composed during the Second World War at the request of the horn player Dennis Brain, it is a setting of a selection of six poems by English poets on the subject of night, including both its calm and its sinister aspects.
Four Poems for mezzo-soprano & orchestra. (1904) [16] 'Sérénade du passant' for soprano and orchestra, for Luisa Tetrazzini (1912) [17] Solo songs A Free Lance (pub. Leonard) Edenland (pub. Willcocks) Fedora - Gavotte For Memory's Sake (pub. Ascherberg) Her coming (pub. Ricordi) Let us forget (1928) [18] Lines to his Ladye (after a 17th ...
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free" is a sonnet by William Wordsworth written at Calais in August 1802. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807, appearing as the nineteenth poem in a section entitled 'Miscellaneous sonnets'.
"Beau soir" ("Beautiful Evening") is set to a poem by Paul Bourget. The poem paints the picture of a beautiful evening where the rivers are turned rose-colored by the sunset and the wheat fields are moved by a warm breeze. Debussy uses a gently flowing triplet rhythm in the accompaniment, which contrasts the duplets that drive the light melody ...
Serenade Op.13 (1986) Alexander Glazunov. Arabic Melody for cello and piano, Op. 4 No. 5; from Five Romances (songs) (1882–85) Elegy in D flat major for cello and piano (Une Pensee a F. Liszt), Op. 17 (1888) Two Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 20A (1888) (Melodie; Spanish Serenade) Chant du Ménestrel for cello and piano, Op. 71 (1900 ...
Serenade is a volume of poetry by Dutch poet J. Slauerhoff.First published in 1930, the poems in the collection are mostly personal and lyric. Critics have noted that some of the poems are inspired by 19th-century French poetry and are sexual, and they have responded in various ways, with assessments ranging from "childish" to "pure lyric".
Sunset Serenade is a 1942 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers, and George "Gabby" Hayes. Plot. Vera Martin, a scheming housekeeper ...
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring is a tone poem composed in 1912 by Frederick Delius. Together with Summer Night on the River it is one of Delius's Two Pieces for Small Orchestra . The two were first performed in Leipzig on 23 October 1913, conducted by Arthur Nikisch .