Poet: Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
Source: The Poet’s Echo
Date of Composition: 1965 (Aug. 23)
Publication: Faber Music Ltd., 1967*
Voice Difficulty Level: Difficult
Subject: Like the echo, the poet’s voice is not returned.
Range: C4 – Ab5
Tessitura: F4 – C5
Tempo: Largamente; 6/4
Duration: 04:23
Vocal Characteristics: Challenging vocal lines demand advanced technique
Piano Difficulty Level: Difficult
Accompaniment Characteristics: Piano does “echo” the vocal melody; highly complex harmonic, chromatic landscape; repetitive lines echoing both the voice and the piano itself
Additional Comments: Multiple meter changes; key is irrelevant; markings in parenthesis of dynamic are not editors markings, but Britten’s; they do appear in the manuscript; *Translations in the Faber by Pears; Britten Thematic Catalog http://www.brittenproject.org/works/BTC1123