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Benjamin Britten Composer
The Heart of the Matter, for tenor, narrator, horn, piano (song cycle)
Performances: 1
Tracks: 7
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The Heart of the Matter, for tenor, narrator, horn, piano (song cycle)Year: 1956
Genre: Solo Song / Lied / Chanson
Pr. Instruments: Tenor & Narrator
- 1.Prologue (Fanfare Song1 ): Where are the seeds of the Universal fire
- 2.Reading 1: The earth of my heart was broken and gaped low. Fanfare (reprise)
- 3.Reading 2: In the hour when the sapphire of the bone
- 4.Song: We are the darkness in the heat of the day
- 5.Reading 3: In such a heat of the earth
- 6.Reading 4: I see Christ's wounds weep in the Rose on the wall
- 7.Epilogue (Fanfare Song 2): So, out of the dark
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