Britten/ Meucci/ Nardis - Complete Guitar & Voice Fulfilled By AEC The mediation of text achieves

The mediation of text achieves the immediate effect that an opera aria or

setting up Lady Wray for the full spotlight and setting the tone for the rest of the album

whose styles he worked into these concertos

and Big Black on congas

Britten/ Meucci/ Nardis - Complete Guitar & Voice Fulfilled By AEC The mediation of text achievesThe "Songs from the Chinese", a cycle of six songs on poems translated from the original Chinese by Arthur Waley (1889 1966), were written in 1957 and premiered the following year by the duo of Pears and Bream. By the late 50s Bream was a lutenist and guitarist of great renown and had accompanied Pears in works by Dowland and other early music of the British Isles, concerts that inspired Britten to write for the duo some music of his own. His cycle