Benjamin Britten - 25 March, 1931
from Diary of Benjamin Britten, March 25 1931, page 68:
Benjamin Britten, Diary of Benjamin Britten, March 25 1931. In John Evans (ed.), Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938, volume 72 (:London, 2009), p. 68. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1401959974901 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104, B. 191
written by Antonín Dvorák |
performed by Suggia |
Morning Heroes (1930)
written by Arthur Bliss |
performed by BBC Symphonic Orchestra |
overture to Semiramide
written by Rossini |
performed by BBC Symphonic Orchestra |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 25 March, 1931 |
Medium | broadcast |
Listening Environment | solitary |
Notes
Evans notes: 'Bliss Morning Heroes (1930), symphony for orator, chorus and orchestra, dedicated ‘To the memory of Francis Kennard Bliss [the composer’s brother] and all other Comrades killed in battle’, setting texts by Homer, Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, Li Tai Po and Robert Nichols. Though Britten was clearly unimpressed by this work, it may well have influenced his own War Requiem, in spirit, if not in substance – both works are linked to the First World War and both set the poetry of Wilfred Owen'.