The Long LineThe Long Line

Benjamin Britten

The Heart of the Matter, for tenor, narrator, horn, piano

Song cycle

Vocal

Movements

Prologue

  1. Fanfare: Song: "Where Are the Seeds of Universal Fire"
  1. Reading: "The Earth of My Heart Was Broken", Fanfare
  2. Reading: "In the Hour When the Sapphire of the Bone"
  3. Song: "We Are the Darkness"
  4. Reading: "In Such a Heat of the Earth"
  5. Canticle III: "Still Falls the Rain"
  6. Reading: "I See Christ's Wounds Weep in the Rose on the Wall"

Epilogue

  1. Fanfare: Song: "So, Out of the Dark"

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