Content
- Introduction
- The Merry Cuckoo
- Spring, the Sweet Spring
- The Driving Boy
- The Morning Star
- Welcome Maids of Honour
- Waters Above
- Out on the Lawn I lie in Bed
- When will my May come
- Fair and Fair
- Sound the Flute
- Finale
Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony and was composed to represent, as stated by the composer himself 'the progress of Winter to Spring and the reawakening of the earth and life'. It was first premiered in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1949 as part of the Holland Festival.