Benjamin Britten - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Op.31 (1943): Nocturne (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.