Marcus Maroney:

>The structure of the piece makes sense to me.  It is, as in many pieces
>arranged in an arch:
>
>Prologue--Epilogue
>Pastoral--Sonnet (poems dealing with end of day)
>Nocturne--Hymn (odes--poems dedicated to something--the bugle and Diana)
>Elegy--Dirge (poems dealing with death)

Etc.  THANK YOU!  I never realized that it was an arch.  A favorite piece
for many years.

>Re: recordings.  I imprinted on Robert Tear/Alan Civil/Marriner on EMI,
>still a favorite performance of mine.  I do like Ainsley/Pyatt on EMI too,
>Neunecker's is a bit too stiff for me.  Curiously enough, I never really
>warmed to any of the Pears'/Britten recordings I've heard, ...

My favorite recording was on an old American Decca LP - Charles Bressler
(tenor), Ralph (?) Froehlich (horn), both conducted by Waldman.  I haven't
seen it on CD.

Steve Schwartz