Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Sacred and Profane Op. 91 is a collection of ‘Eight Medieval Lyrics’ for unaccompanied voices in five parts (SSATB) composed by Benjamin Britten in 1975.The work was first performed by the Wilbye Consort of Voices for whom the work was composed on 14 September 1975 at The Maltings Snape in Suffolk England (Elaine Barry & Rosemary Hardy sopranos Margaret Cable contralto Nigel Rogers tenor Geoffrey Shaw bass) directed by Peter Pears.