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'''''Winter Words''''', [[Opus number|Op.]] 52, is a [[song cycle]] for [[tenor]] and [[piano]] by [[Benjamin Britten]]. Written in 1953, it sets eight poems by [[Thomas Hardy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brittenpears.org/page.php?pageid=511|access-date=2 August 2013|publisher=Britten-Pears Foundation|title=Winter Words}}</ref> ''Winter Words'' is one of Britten's few compositions from the period after the premiere of his opera ''[[Gloriana]]''; the cycle is named after Hardy's last published collection, but the poems are from different parts of Hardy's collected poems.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Graham |title=Britten, Voice and Piano - Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten |year=2003 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing Limited |isbn=9780754638728 |pages=224–227}}</ref> The cycle was premiered at the [[Leeds Festival]] in October 1953, with [[Peter Pears]] singing and Britten at the piano. It was dedicated to [[John Piper (artist)|John]] and [[Myfanwy Piper]].<ref name=Allmusic>{{Allmusic
'''''Winter Words''''', [[Opus number|Op.]] 52, is a [[song cycle]] for [[tenor]] and [[piano]] by [[Benjamin Britten]]. Written in 1953, it sets eight poems by [[Thomas Hardy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brittenpears.org/page.php?pageid=511|access-date=2 August 2013|publisher=Britten-Pears Foundation|title=Winter Words}}</ref> The cycle is named after Hardy's last published collection, but the poems are from different parts of hiss collected poems.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Graham |title=Britten, Voice and Piano - Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten |year=2003 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing Limited |isbn=9780754638728 |pages=224–227}}</ref>
The cycle was premiered at the [[Leeds Festival]] in October 1953, with [[Peter Pears]] singing and Britten at the piano. It was dedicated to [[John Piper (artist)|John]] and [[Myfanwy Piper]] -- Myfanwy Piper was the librettist of Britten's opera [[The Turn of the Screw|The Turn of the Screw (opera)]], which was begun in 1953 and premiered the following year.<ref name=Allmusic>{{Allmusic
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Winter Words, Op. 52, is a song cycle for tenor and piano by Benjamin Britten. Written in 1953, it sets eight poems by Thomas Hardy.[1] The cycle is named after Hardy's last published collection, but the poems are from different parts of hiss collected poems.[2]

The cycle was premiered at the Leeds Festival in October 1953, with Peter Pears singing and Britten at the piano. It was dedicated to John and Myfanwy Piper -- Myfanwy Piper was the librettist of Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw (opera), which was begun in 1953 and premiered the following year.[3]

A performance takes about 22 minutes.[3] The poems are:[4]

  1. "At Day-Close in November"
  2. "Midnight on the Great Western" (or, "The Journeying Boy")
  3. "Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)"
  4. "The Little Old Table"
  5. "The Choirmaster's Burial" (or, "The Tenor Man's Story")
  6. "Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)"
  7. "At the Railway Station, Upway" (or, "The Convict and Boy with the Violin")
  8. "Before Life and After"

References

  1. ^ "Winter Words". Britten-Pears Foundation. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  2. ^ Johnson, Graham (2003). Britten, Voice and Piano - Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten. Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 224–227. ISBN 9780754638728.
  3. ^ a b Benjamin Britten: Winter Words, song cycle for tenor & piano, Op. 52 at AllMusic. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Winter words: Song Cycle by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)". The LiederNet Archive. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
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