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1804: 47: 378:, "Christ the fair glory of the holy angels". Britten later reworked this movement into a piece for voice, cello, and piano. A speaker continues with another text by Roberts, "And as it was in the beginning ... the light shall triumph", leading to the final movement 5 in Part 2, "War in Heaven". Verses from the 393:
Part 3, "Angels in Common Life, and at our Death" begins with movement 6 for soprano, choir and orchestra, "Heaven is here" from an unknown source. Another spoken passage by Roberts follows, "There are those, not only Christians", about "guardian spirits". The text of movement 7, set for tenor and
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reflect the resurrection. The last spoken text is by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "I think they laugh in heaven". The work is concluded by movement 11 for both soloists, choir and orchestra on a hymn by Athelstan Riley, "O ye angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord". In the end, the central theme is
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orchestra, is a poem by Emily Brontë, "A thousand, thousand gleaming fires". The following story tells about a boy who is killed in an accident and met by his guardian angel, followed by movement 8, a funeral march for orchestra. A speaker recites a poem by
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The text assembles writings about angels from biblical sources up to contemporary poetry. Most of the texts are spoken, selected texts are set to music by Britten who also composed two purely instrumental movements, an introduction and a
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Britten wrote to Harvey in October 1955: "By all means go ahead and try and arrange a broadcast of some of the music you have discovered, only I can trust you only to put the good bits of music in and leave out the bad, can't
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Although Britten and Roberts discussed publishing the piece or reworking it for concert performance, Britten did neither. The score came into the possession of Harvey around the beginning of the
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The composer's pleasure in bending and unbending plainchant to his own rhythmic and harmonic will is almost palpable; the metrical spoken (shouted) male chorus of "War in Heaven", a
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Harvey later recalled that he and Pears were sharing a flat when the work was being composed; Britten, a frequent visitor, would listen repeatedly to Harvey's copy of
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Part 2, "Angels in Holy Scripture", begins with a spoken passage "Angels were the first creatures God made" by
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comments, "The influence could hardly be plainer in the eighth, purely orchestral, movement of the cantata."
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choir with the densest vocal texture, SSAATTBB. A spoken poem follows, "Farewell, green field" by
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Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume IV, 1952–1957
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as a comment to a preceding reading. Only the sections set to music are numbered.
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of earlier film techniques; the naivety of the Emily Bronte setting … in no way
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Britten, Benjamin; Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke and Donald Mitchell (eds) (1998).
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Britten composed the music between 8 August and 22 September 1937 as
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Eleven movements of the text are set to music, others are spoken.
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on 29 September 1937. The associated text on angels, related to
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in 1989. Reviewing that performance, Hilary Finch wrote in
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Greenfield, Edward. "Britten's radio days revisited",
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for speaker and orchestra on a passage from the novel
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Frank Bridge Variations
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