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	Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings; Les Illuminations; Nocturne, ...
		Benjamin Britten's music for the tenor voice still seems to be owned, decades posthumously, by Peter Pears, whose recording of the composer's three great song cycles holds an especially treasured place in the discography.
		Tenor Ian Bostridge brings together three of Britten's most important song cycles: "Serenade for tenor, horn and strings," "Les Illuminations," and "Nocturne." His performances are notable for their dramatic range, particularly the power and passion and vocal abandon he brings to these works.
		In "Serenade," there is a thrilling wildness to "Nocturne" that one does not usually associate with this music, his "Dirge" is a harrowing beacon of doom, and his performance of "Nocturne"'s "But that night when on my bed I lay," is crazed, almost demented sounding.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?z=y&EAN=724355804921&ITM=6 (1981 words)

	Sydney Symphony - smh.com.au
		Tenor James Oxley and French horn player Ben Jacks brought focus and eloquence to a work which endures as one of the finest musical settings of poetic texts ever written, Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.
		Oxley had the rounded lyricism of a tenor and the rhetorical poise of an actor.
		In the Dirge This ae nighte, which forms the striking centrepiece of this cycle, he picked his high G from the horn coda of the preceding Elegy (Blake's "O Rose, thou art sick") and maintained it with grim implacability against the growing slings and arrows from strings and horn.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/13/1047431149639.html (396 words)

	The London Ensemble - Chamber Music and Orchestra Concert Repertoire
		Beethoven Piano Trios, String Quartets, Sextet for 2 Horns and Strings, Serenade for Flute, Violin,
		Mozart String Quartets, String Quintets, Piano Quartets, Piano Trios, Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Clarinet Quintet
		Schubert String Quintet in C, "Die Forelle" (Trout) Piano Quintet, "Death and the Maiden" String Quartet, "Quartettsatz" String Quartet, Octet
	www.classical-musicians.com /Repertoire.htm (298 words)

	Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		The most important is Serenade, the setting of six English poems for tenor, solo horn and string orchestra that he completed in 1943.
		It was the first large-scale work he had written specifically for Peter Pears, and it was also a response to the extraordinary artistry of the horn player Dennis Brain.
		The solo horn opens the work, adds perfectly imagined atmosphere to the songs, and then, in Pears's words, "winds the work into stillness".
	arts.guardian.co.uk /keynotes/story/0,11111,608886,00.html (329 words)

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		Some of his finest works were written especially for tenor Peter Pears, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich or hornist Dennis Brain; others set the words of his friend W.H. Auden to music.
		Britten intended it to be premiered by an English tenor, a German baritone, a Soviet soprano, adult and children's choirs, and two main groups of instruments, with the forces spread around the cathedral.
		Listeners lacking a pathological aversion to the human voice must hear the ``War Requiem'' in Britten's recording with tenor Peter Pears, baritone Dietrich Fiescher-Dieskau and soprano Galina Vishnevskaya - the singers for whom it was intended.
	www.azstarnet.com /public/packages/reelbook/153-3998.htm (1155 words)

	Serenade (not) for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings has always been a favorite piece of mine; a mostly-overlooked 20th Century Masterpiece, with one niggling flaw—there’s no solo cello part.
		It's an odd idea, and I'm sure Britten would be appalled—he was a master at getting the maximum range of tone color out of a minimal complement of instruments, and he would certainly have written the part differently if he had wanted a cello as the solo instrument.
		So I set to work figuring out ways to play the cello as though it was a french horn, using false harmonics to substitute for various mute effects, and devising, to paraphrase the 1560 Geneva Bible “helpful fingerings in all the hard places”.
	home.earthlink.net /~eevanson3/index.html (407 words)

	Curious Conscience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings is set to poems by six English poets.
		Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings is a 20th century atmospheric masterpiece.
		The Serenade is an extraordinary example of Britten’s ability to set an anthology of texts bound together by a similar theme, in this case, the world of night, sleep and dreams.
	www.rambert.org.uk /whats_on/repertoire/detail.asp?art=1842 (435 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
		The most important is Serenade, the setting of six English poems for tenor, solo horn and string orchestra that he completed in 1943.
		It was the first large-scale work he had written specifically for Peter Pears, and it was also a response to the extraordinary artistry of the horn player Dennis Brain.
		The solo horn opens the work, adds perfectly imagined atmosphere to the songs, and then, in Pears's words, "winds the work into stillness".
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/keynotes/story/0,11111,608886,00.html (312 words)

	Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings; Les Illuminations; Nocturne home Mortgage and repair how to book.
		The horn playing of Frank Lloyd matches the singer in tenderness, even if he isn't the daredevil that Tuckwell ws--Lloyd's suppleness is closer to Brain in approach.
		Likewise the Nocturne 'for tenor, seven obbligato instruments an strings' is a mature work of Britten's and has echoes of phrases from what by the time of its composition were closely identified with the 'Britten sound'.
		The voicing of the chord when all the obbligato instruments and the strings play together for the first time at the beginning of the Shakespeare is breathtaking and Rattle makes the climax of the Sonnet (and indeed the whole cycle) an overwhelming moment.
	www.buyhomerepairbooks.com /books/isbnB000AXZE3U.html (1917 words)

	SACD Review: Scottish Ensemble (Gould) - ‘Britten: Les Illuminations, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Serenade ...
		Tenor Toby Spence and Royal Philharmonic principal horn Martin Owen join Gould and the Scottish Ensemble for a rendition of the ‘Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings’ that is equally triumphant.
		Halstead is unsurpassed in his manner of sharply lowering the pitch of the horn in the “Elegy” by inserting his hand in the instrument’s bell (as instructed in the score), reducing the note to a harsh, strangled howl in a way that sends chills up and down my spine every time I hear it.
		Horn virtuoso Martin Owen balances himself against the rest of the group in the ensemble numbers, but he makes the most of the “Prologue”, playing with incredible dynamic range and pushing himself as close to the edge as Anthony Halstead did in the Nimbus recording.
	www.highfidelityreview.com /reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=12361329 (3146 words)

	October Program Notes
		The Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings was written for Pears and for the noted British hornist Dennis Brain in 1943.
		A serenade is, in essence, "night music," and Britten's serenade uses poetry to explore the twilight world of sleep and dreams.
		After a brief, evocative prologue by the French horn, the tenor sings six poems: a Pastoral (Charles Cotton); a Nocturne (Tennyson); an Elegy (Blake); a Dirge (Anonymous); a Hymn (Jonson); and a Sonnet (Keats).
	www.bronxsymphony.org /octnote.htm (390 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings; Nocturne; Phaedra: Music: Benjamin Britten,Steuart ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This one contains the two tenor/orchestra song cycles, 'Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings,' and 'Nocturne,' sung gorgeously by Philip Langridge, as well as the Ann Murray performance of 'Phaedra.' The English Chamber Orchestra, long associated with the music of Britten and the official orchestra of his Aldeburgh Festival, provides the orchestral accompaniments.
		This sort of shaping is heard throughout, and considering the heavy dramatic freight of the marvelous poetry in both this cycle and 'Nocturne' (which is a younger brother, on might say, of 'Serenade'), that is entirely admirable.
		Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Britten, Lso, Pears) ~ Benjamin Britten
	www.amazon.co.uk /Britten-Serenade-Strings-Nocturne-Phaedra/dp/B0006IGQ6S (956 words)

	David Ossenfort
		Basically a love song, the composition is indeed compelling, but was given extraordinary rendering by the strong and vibrant voice of the soloist.
		"The role of Ernesto, the Don's nephew, was sung by tenor David Ossenfort with unforced sweetness and a catch in the voice that went straight to the heart.
		Ossenfort has a delicious dynamic control in his higher range and lingered lovingly on those notes which he knew he was producing especially beautifully.
	www.novoartists.com /ossenfort.html (1039 words)

	Review of Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings/David Pyatt
		It's good, very good, but (and, yes, you knew there was going to be a 'but' in there somewhere) I am wondering about the level of characterisation in one or two of the settings.
		Ainsley is most effective in the Serenade, and well partnered by David Pyatt, who sets the twilight mood very effectively in the opening solo 'Prologue'.
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	www.hornplayer.net /archive/a23.html (847 words)

	South Bend Symphony - Program Notes
		Peter Grimes (and the orchestral excerpts); the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings; and the War Requiem are significant masterpieces of the 20 th Century.
		Lyon 's chromatic harp, with a vast array of strings to manage, found little favor, and it is Lyon's double-action pedal harp that has been used ever since.
		It lasts 80 minutes and is scored for soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus, boy's choir, orchestra, chamber orchestra and organ.
	www.southbendsymphony.org /pages/chamber_3.htm (1530 words)

	JS Online: Barnewitz and his horn have sweetened MSO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In April of 1996, principal horn player William Barnewitz was new to Milwaukee.
		All that is in addition to his usual duties on one of the hottest seats in the orchestra and teaching at UWM and Northwestern University.
		He took charge of a veteran horn section that had been together a very long time, and friction was to be expected.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/performingarts/strini/jan01/horn09010801.asp (1617 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ser For Ten/Horn/Strs/Our Hunt: Music: Benjamin Britten,Ingo Metzmacher,Daniel Harding,Bamberg Symphony ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Any recording of Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings will obviously be compared with the one made by the composer and the man for whom he wrote it, Peter Pears.
		Indeed, Pears' voice was so extraordinary that it is hard to hear almost any of Britten's music for tenor without the ghost of his peculiarly silvery and ringing tones popping up in one's ears.
		He is matched with horn playing of such accuracy and purity that the overall effect would be nearly inhuman were it not for the satisfying sense of tension and release given to the whole work by Metzmacher's direction.
	www.amazon.ca /Ser-Ten-Horn-Strs-Hunt/dp/B00000K4F6 (558 words)

	Angel Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Britten: Les Illuminations For Tenor And Strings, Op.
		Britten: Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings, Op.
		Britten: Nocturne For Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments And Strings, Op.
	www.angelrecords.com /detail.asp?UPCCode=724356197824 (306 words)

	Aldeburgh Festival (1)Britten, Shostakovitch: The Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor), Timothy Robinson (tenor), ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was an effort to adjust to the altogether different mood of the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.
		For a change, one focussed on the lushness of the strings, eerily pure and menacing at the same time.
		The Hallé musicians played with exquisite clarity, and it was a joy to hear how the strings and horn interacted around the voice.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2006/Jan-Jun06/aldeburgh1006.htm (916 words)

	The British Horn Society - Events
		Born in 1983 Etienne Cutajar is a native of Malta and started playing the horn at the age of ten under the tuition of Baul Borg from the same country.
		Etienne was appointed 3rd horn of the Malta National Orchestra aged 18; he resigned the post after 2 years in order to pursue a 2 year postgraduate course as an ABRSM scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Michael Thompson and Richard Watkins.
		"When horn students from all the UK conservatoires came together to premiere Tim Jackson’s Symphony for 32 Horns at the 2005 BHS festival, I was hugely impressed with the standard of horn playing that we have in every one of these colleges.
	www.british-horn.org /events.html (1654 words)

	Amazon.com: Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings; Les Illuminations; Nocturne: Music: Stefan Schweigert,Wenzel ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Giving equal weight to words and music, Bostridge captures the lush sensuousness of the French cycle, set to poems of Rimbaud, the lyricism, lightness, serenity, horror and triumph of the Serenade, and the declamatory drama of the Nocturne (the last two use poetry from Shakespeare to Wilfred Owen).
		The cycles trace the development of Britten's style, from the tonal orientation and direct expressiveness of the first, through the greater emotional depth and variety of the second, to the descriptive, sardonic, wild, passionate rhetoric of the third.
		Unfortunately, they are nameless except for Radek Baborák, a worthy successor to Dennis Brain, the virtuoso hornist for whom the Serenade was written.
	www.amazon.com /Britten-Serenade-Strings-Illuminations-Nocturne/dp/B000AXZE3U (497 words)

	Sarkis Barsemian, tenor
		Canadian tenor Sarkis Barsemian is quickly becoming known for his charm and noble presence on stage.
		His bright lyric voice and ease with the upper register is well suited for the romantic leads of Mozart and bel canto repertoire.
		His repertoire includes Bach’s St-John Passion, Easter Oratorio, Magnificat, Cantata 147, Haydn's Missa in Augustiis and Die Jahreszeiten, Britten’s Serenade for a Tenor, horn and strings, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, and La Misa Criolla of Ramirez and The Serenade of Music of Vaughan Williams.
	www.micartists.com /micbio_SB.htm (167 words)

	19 Oct (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings is a beautifully evocative song cycle, setting poems that explore the subject of the night, sleep and dreams.
		Britten’s vision of night is of a time filled with shadows and angst, supremely symbolised by the medieval Dirge, in which the tenor’s melody is half chant, half wail.
		The programme is framed by two epic works for string orchestra, Bartok’s high-spirited Divertimento and Beethoven’s favourite late String Quartet op.131, arranged for larger forces by Colin Davis.
	www.manchestercamerata.com /concerts/colneconcerts/19oct.asp (113 words)

	BRITTEN: Serenade for Tenor / Les Illuminations / Nocturne recommended cd collection, cd review and cd details.
		BRITTEN: Serenade for Tenor / Les Illuminations / Nocturne
		Les Illuminations for Tenor and Strings, Op.
		Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments and Strings, Op.
	www.naxos.com /catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.553834 (97 words)

	Classical sheet music, for all instruments and abilities.
		Violin Concerto, 3rd movement, Allegro Assai for Solo violin and strings.
		Tchaikovsky: Op.48: Serenade for Strings, 4th mvt: Thema Russo
		Thema Russo, the final movement from Serenade for Strings.
	www.music-scores.com (263 words)

	HMV.co.uk: classical: Britten: Serenade For Tenor,Horn & Strings: Nocturne: Les Illuminations (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The /Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings/ contains some wonderful things, not least the orchestra's principal horn Radek Baborák, outstanding in the protean solo role.
		The peculiarly crepuscular atmosphere of the /Nocturne/, ranging from the otherworldly setting of Shelley's /The Poet's Dream/ to the expansive textures of the emotive Shakespeare sonnet bringing the CD to a close, rounds off a quite superb disc.
		Encinctured With A Twine Of Leaves-Marie-Pierre Langlamet (Harp)
	www.hmv.co.uk /hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=12;-1;-1;-1&sku=412807 (356 words)

	Chicago Symphony First Chair
		The first principal conductor to share Solti’s podium was Giulini, represented here by Britten’s poignant Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, written in 1943 after returning to the UK from a three-year absence in the US, just prior to Peter Grimes.
		The first recording was on 78-rpm Decca monodiscs in 1944, featuring the work’s commissioner, Dennis Brain, as horn soloist, and Peter Pears as tenor soloist, accompanied by the Boyd Neal Orchestra under Britten’s direction.
		For original instrument fans there are too many strings, and for the rest of us an overbright sound that DG has fancied in many of its transfers from analog to digital.
	classicalcdreview.com /cso.html (638 words)

	Classical Net Review - Britten - Les Illuminations, Serenade for Tenor, Nocturne
		It is impossible to hear this music without remembering tenor Peter Pears, Britten's lifelong companion, but Bostridge does his best to make us forget him with singing of unearthly beauty and with probing interpretations.
		Why he chose to make a second recording of this work in so short a time probably has to do with the intensity of his musical relationship with Rattle, and with his increasing maturity as a singer.
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	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/e/emi58049a.html (540 words)

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