Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Performed by Tenor Nathan Haller, Horn Marcel Üstün, and Sondeum Chamber Ensemble. Britten’s eight part song cycle thrills with love, loss, and colourful landscape imagery . Written in 1943, during world war two, it incorporates texts from Cotton, Tennyson, Blake, Ben Jonson, and Keats, spanning a vast literary timeline.

The playlist (in the top right corner of the video) contains the entirety of the performance that took place September 9th, 2022.