{"product_id":"13451-britten-benjamin-pears-peter-brain-dennis-serenade-for-tenor-horn-and-strings-signed-score-program","title":"Britten, Benjamin. (1913–1976) \u0026 Pears, Peter. (1910–1986) [Brain, Dennis. (1921–1957)] Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings - SIGNED SCORE \u0026 PROGRAM","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eMiniature score to the important English composer's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eSerenade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, op. 31, signed on the title page by both Britten and Peter Pears, his lifelong companion and the tenor who first performed the work. Dated May 1954 with an ownership signature on the inside front cover. [PN] 8934. 38 pp. Some light overall toning, but otherwise in fine condition. 5.5 x 7.5 inches (13.5 x 18.7 cm). Together with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003ean original program from a 1955 performance of Britten's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eSerenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003ewith Peter Pears and horn player Dennis Brain, for whom the piece was composed in 1943. The program, with the Scottish National Orchestra under Karl Rankl, also included Mozart's Horn Concerto no. 3, Mozart arias, and Beethoven's Symphony no. 8. Dated January 21, 1955. A few small scuffs; overall in fine condition. 15 pp. 5.5 x 8.5 inches (13.8 x 21.5 cm).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\"There was a lull in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"hit highlight\" style=\"\"\u003eBritten\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e’s flow of composition around this time [1942-50], owing partly to a serious attack of measles for which he was in hospital and then off work in March and April 1943. Several projects were abandoned, but during the months he was resting he composed, at Snape, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"hit highlight\" style=\"\"\u003eSerenade\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e for tenor, horn and strings. In this work he invented his own kind of shadowed pastoralism, not the ideal England of the folksong composers but a place in which the worm finds the bud and a darker side of medieval experience is explored (in the Lyke Wake Dirge); the high ostinato that is also the strophic vocal line enabled a particularly fruitful orchestral dialogue to suggest deeper levels to this poem.\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"CON\" style=\"\"\u003ePhilip Brett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\/\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"CON\" style=\"\"\u003eHeather Wiebe, New Grove.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093518897311,"sku":"13451","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Britten_Pears_Signed_Serenade_Score_13451_002-rotated-270.jpg?v=1722188563","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/13451-britten-benjamin-pears-peter-brain-dennis-serenade-for-tenor-horn-and-strings-signed-score-program","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}