The Poet's Echo (Russian title: Поета Эхо) is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (1913–76) in August 1965 during a holiday visit to the Soviet Union, in Dilizhan, Armenia. It consists of settings for high voice and piano of six poems by the Russian poet Alexandr Pushkin (1799–1837), in their original language. It was published as his Op. 76.
Date of composition | 1965 (August 1965) |
Premiered | 1965, August 29th (Philhamonic Concert Hall) in Yerevan, Armenia |
Dedicated to | 'For Galya and Slava' |
Type | Song(s) |
Catalogue | BTC 1125 |
Approx. duration | 16 minutes |
Instruments |
Voice
- Solo voices ;
Piano |
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