The Heart's Assurance
composer: Sir Michael Tippett
arranger: Meirion Bowen
author of original text: Alun Lewis - Sidney Keyes
song cycle on poems by Sidney Keyes and Alun
orchestrated by Meirion Bowen
for high voice and orchestra
Dedication: to Carlos Caster
Premiere: 27 September 1990 London, Barbican Hall · London Bach Orchestra · Theresa Cahill, soprano · John Lubbock, conductor
Orchestra instrumentation: 1.1.1(Acl).1-4.1.0.0-perc(tri, sus cym, s.d, military d)-hp-str(3.3.2.2.1 minimum)
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 17' 0''
Year of composition: 1990
Edition: performance material
Language: English
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