for unison/optional three part voices and piano
Text: Shakespeare
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Difficulty level: 1
This was originally one of three settings of Shakespeare texts by different composers – the others being Kodály and Poulenc. It is classic Britten: lovely singable lines, colourful piano part and a highly effective division into three parts at the end in the revised version. It would programme well with The Oxen.
Duration: 1 minute
Paul Spicer, Lichfield, 2011