Today’s choice, composed in 1977, consists of a series of descending A minor scales, and the tolling of a bell – is it a funeral bell, or one of the submerged church tower bells off the Suffolk coast?
For further reading, I can’t do better than the Wikipedia page for this piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantus_in_Memoriam_Benjamin_Britten
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