NOCTURNE for tenor voice seven obbligato instruments and string orchestra op. 60
Duration 25.0`
Dedication `To Alma Mahler`
The separate sections of this work have been listed as movements for ease of reference. The work is however through-composed without any gaps.

Promethus unbound excerpt Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
The kraken Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 - Bassoon obligato
The wanderings of Cain excerpt Samuel Coleridge 1772-1834 - Harp obligato.
Blurt Master Constable Thomas Middleton 1580-1627 - Horn obligato
The Prelude 1805; excerpt William Wordsworth 1770-1850 - Timp obligato
The kind ghosts Wilfred Owen 1893-1918 - Cor anglais obligato
Sleep and poetry John Keats 1795-1821 - Flute clarinet duet
Sonnet 43 William Shakespeare 1564-1616

Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings (1958), op. 60 (Britten)
September 21&22, 1959, Alexander Murray(flute), Gervase de Peyer(clarinet), Roger Lord(English horn), William Waterhouse(bassoon), Barry Tuckwell(French horn), Osian Ellis(harp), Denis Biyth(timpani), Pierce, Britten, London CO
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