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Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations , Op. 18, stands as a crowning achievement of 20th-century vocal repertoire. Composed between 1939 and 1940, this brilliant song cycle sets the visionary prose poetry of French symbolist Arthur Rimbaud to music for high voice (soprano or tenor) and string orchestra. britten les illuminations pdf
Looking for a PDF score of Benjamin Britten’s stunning song cycle , Op. 18? To help you find the right edition for
: A side-by-side French-to-English translation of the movements is provided by the Minnesota Orchestra . 18, stands as a crowning achievement of 20th-century
Rimbaud wrote Les Illuminations in the 1870s, a collection of 42 prose poems and verses that are surreal, erotic, visionary, and deliberately fragmented. Britten selected nine of these for his cycle. He did not set them in the original order, but rather crafted his own dramatic arc. The result is a work that swings between ecstasy and despair, sacred imagery and blasphemy, pastoral calm and urban chaos.