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Discover Britten: Our Hunting Fathers; Who Are These Children?; Still Falls the Rain; Lachrymae by Benjamin Britten released in 1999. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
The hunting of animals–a subject that appears in both the early Our Hunting Fathers (1936) and in the title poem of Britten’s last song cycle, Who are these children?
Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8, is an orchestral song-cycle by Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1936.
Britten was not just the greatest British composer of the 20th century, but one of its finest musicians, as this outstanding pair of recordings from the BBC archive makes plain.
Who Are These Children? is a song cycle for tenor and piano composed in 1969 by Benjamin Britten (1913–76), and published as his Op. 84. It consists of settings of twelve poems by the Scottish poet William Soutar (1898–1943). It was written to mark the 700th National Galleries of Scotland Concert.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1999 CD release of "Our Hunting Fathers · Who Are These Children? · Still Falls The Rain · Lachrymae" on Discogs.
Our Hunting Fathers, a piece from the 1930s, reminds us that to be modern you do not have to be contemporary, and that political commitment need not call for any sacrifice of musical integrity nor even of enjoyment.
