#britten

i have had this opera on my watchlist for five and a half years.

i remember like two (2) things about the plot from listening to a podcast five and a half years ago.

Broken gets the best treatment here, all the love he deserves

“Nocturne” from “Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings” (1943) by Benjamin Britten

“Nocturne” is the third movement of the collection and is a setting of “Blow, bugle, blow” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

The splendour falls on castle walls

And snowy summits old in story:

The long light shakes across the lakes,

And the wild cataract leaps in glory:

Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,

Bugle blow; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

O hark, O hear, how thin and clear,

And thinner, clearer, farther going!

O sweet and far from cliff and scar

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!

Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:

Bugle, blow; answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

O love, they die in yon rich sky,

They faint on hill or field or river:

Our echoes roll from soul to soul,

And grow for ever and for ever.

Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying;