| 词条 | Who Are These Children? |
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Who Are These Children? is a song cycle for tenor and piano composed in 1969 by Benjamin Britten (1913{{ndash}}76), and published as his Op. 84. It consists of settings of twelve poems by the Scottish poet William Soutar (1898{{ndash}}1943). It was written to mark the 700th National Galleries of Scotland Concert. It was dedicated to Tertia Liebenthal, honorary organiser of the Edinburgh lunch-hour concerts. The first performance was at Edinburgh on 4 May 1971 by Peter Pears (tenor) and the composer (piano); she had by then died, and it was given in her memory.[1][2][3] A performance typically takes about 20 minutes. The songs are:[4]
Four of the poems (Nos. 3, 6, 9 and 11) are in Scottish Standard English; the other eight are in Lowland Scots. The latter comprise five pithy miniatures (which Soutar called "Bairn-Rhymes"), a "Bairn's Song" (No. 12) and two riddles; the former "deal with darker themes, particularly the plight of children in the context of violence and war".[3] The cycle was recorded by the original performers for Decca in November 1972 at The Maltings, Snape. The producer was Ray Minshull and the recording engineer Kenneth Wilkinson.[5] References1. ^{{cite book |title=Benjamin Britten: A Biography |last=Carpenter |first=Humphrey |authorlink=Humphrey Carpenter |pages=497–498, 545 |publisher=Faber and Faber |location=London |year=1992 |isbn=0-571-14324-5 }} {{Benjamin Britten|state=collapsed}}{{classical-music-stub}}2. ^{{cite book |title=The Music of Benjamin Britten |last=Evans |first=Peter |authorlink=Peter Evans (musicologist) |pages=385–391 |publisher=J. M. Dent & Sons |location=London, Melbourne and Toronto |year=1979 |isbn=0-460-04350-1 }} 3. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.brittenpears.org/page.php?pageid=510 |title=Who are these Children? |website=Britten-Pears Foundation |accessdate=25 April 2015 }} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.lieder.net/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=3685 |website=The LiederNet Archive |title=Texts to Who are these children?: Song Cycle by Benjamin Britten |accessdate=25 April 2015 }} 5. ^Liner notes to Decca LP SXL 6608. 3 : Song cycles by Benjamin Britten|1969 compositions|Classical song cycles in English |
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