Sacred and Profane (8 Medieval Lyrics)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sacred and Profane is a collection of eight choral works, composed by Benjamin Britten in 1974-5, and completed just one year before his death. The work was composed for a professional choir and as such is vocally and musically challenging. It is a collection of 8 'lyrics' for unaccompanied voices in five parts (SSATB). The texts are in Medieval English. It was first performed 1975 at Snape Maltings by the Wilbye Consort (Elaine Barry & Rosemary Hardy, sopranos, Margaret Cable, contralto, Nigel Rogers, tenor, Geoffrey Shaw, bass)(directed by Peter Pears).