The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
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The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
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The Holy Sonnets of John Donne is a song cycle composed in 1945 by Benjamin Britten for tenor or soprano voice and piano, and published as his Op. 35. It was written for himself and his life-partner, the tenor Peter Pears, and its first performance was by them at the Wigmore Hall, London on 22 November 1945. Britten began to compose the cycle shortly after visiting, seeing the horrors of, and performing at, the liberated Nazi Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The cycle was recorded for Decca by
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Song cycle by Benjamin Britten
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2021-01-29T01:32:07Z
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