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Songs from the Chinese for high voice and guitar, Op 58
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Performer: Robin Tritschler (Tenor)
Performer: Sean Shibe (Guitar)
Recording date: 28 September 2013
Date of broadcast: 07 September 2014
With strange and unsettling music, Britten unites six translated Chinese poems with guitar and creates a commentary on Youth's transience: "Don鈥檛 think about the sorrows of the world, you will only make yourself wretched."
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Performer: Robin Tritschler (Tenor)
Performer: Sean Shibe (Guitar)
Recording date: 28 September 2013
Date of broadcast: 07 September 2014