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Britten, Benjamin
Britten: Vocal Works
Compact Disc (Number of discs: 6)
5 Aug 2013
Barcode: 5099901516425
Audio sample & Tracklisting
| Disc 1 | |
| 01 | I. Fanfare: Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster) - Heather Harper/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Nev |
| 02 | II. Villes: Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster) - Heather Harper/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Nev |
| 03 | IIIa. Phrase: Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster) - Heather Harper/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Nev |
| 04 | IIIb. Antique: Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster) - Heather Harper/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Nev |
| 05 | IV. Royauté: Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster) - Heather Harper/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Nev |
| 06 | V. Marine: Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster) - Heather Harper/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Nev |
| 07 | VI. Interlude: Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster) - Heather Harper/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Nev |
| 08 | VII. Being Beauteous: Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster) - Heather Harper/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Nev |
| 09 | VIII. Parade: Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster) - Heather Harper/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Nev |
| 10 | IX. Départ: Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster) - Heather Harper/Northern Sinfonia Orchestra/Sir Nev |
| 11 | Prologue (horn solo): Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 - Neil Mackie/Barry Tuckwell/Steuart Bedford/John Tu |
| 12 | 1. Pastoral: The day's grown old (Charles Cotton): Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 - Neil Mackie/Barry Tuckwell/Steuart Bedford/John Tu |
| 13 | 2. Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls (Alfred, Lord Tennyson): Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 - Neil Mackie/Barry Tuckwell/Steuart Bedford/John Tu |
| 14 | 3. Elegy: O Rose, thou art sick (William Blake): Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 - Neil Mackie/Barry Tuckwell/Steuart Bedford/John Tu |
| 15 | 4. Dirge: This ae nighte (anon. 15th century): Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 - Neil Mackie/Barry Tuckwell/Steuart Bedford/John Tu |
| 16 | 5. Hymn: Queen and huntress (Ben Jonson): Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 - Neil Mackie/Barry Tuckwell/Steuart Bedford/John Tu |
| 17 | 6. Sonnet: O soft embalmer of the still midnight (John Keats): Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 - Neil Mackie/Barry Tuckwell/Steuart Bedford/John Tu |
| 18 | Epilogue (horn solo): Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 - Neil Mackie/Barry Tuckwell/Steuart Bedford/John Tu |
| 19 | Now sleeps the crimson petal - Neil Mackie/Barry Tuckwell/Scottish Chamber Orches |
| 20 | On a poet's lips I slept (Shelley): Nocturne, Op.60 - Robert Tear/English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate |
| 21 | Below the thunders of the upper deep (Tennyson) (Robin O'Neill, bassoon): Nocturne, Op.60 - Robert Tear/English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate |
| 22 | Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Coleridge) (Thelma Owen, harp): Nocturne, Op.60 - Robert Tear/English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate |
| 23 | Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting (Middleton) (Frank Lloyd, french horn): Nocturne, Op.60 - Robert Tear/English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate |
| 24 | But that night when on my bed I lay (Wordsworth) (David Corkhill, timpani): Nocturne, Op.60 - Robert Tear/English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate |
| 25 | She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Owen) (James Brown, cor anglais): Nocturne, Op.60 - Robert Tear/English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate |
| 26 | What is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Keats) (William Bennett, flute; Thea King, clarinet): Nocturne, Op.60 - Robert Tear/English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate |
| 27 | When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Shakespeare): Nocturne, Op.60 - Robert Tear/English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate |
| Disc 2 | |
| 01 | 1. Nuits de juin (wds. Victor Hugo): Quatre Chansons françaises (1928) - Sir Simon Rattle/Jill Gomez |
| 02 | 2. Sagesse (wds. Paul Verlaine): Quatre Chansons françaises (1928) - Sir Simon Rattle/Jill Gomez |
| 03 | 3. L'Enfance (wds. Victor Hugo): Quatre Chansons françaises (1928) - Sir Simon Rattle/Jill Gomez |
| 04 | 4. Chanson d'automne (wds. Paul Verlaine): Quatre Chansons françaises (1928) - Sir Simon Rattle/Jill Gomez |
| 05 | Prologue: Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 - Elisabeth Söderström/Orchestra of Welsh National O |
| 06 | A. Rats Away!: Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 - Elisabeth Söderström/Orchestra of Welsh National O |
| 07 | B. Messalina: Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 - Elisabeth Söderström/Orchestra of Welsh National O |
| 08 | C. Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge): Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 - Elisabeth Söderström/Orchestra of Welsh National O |
| 09 | Epilogue and Funeral March: Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 - Elisabeth Söderström/Orchestra of Welsh National O |
| 10 | Little Sir William: Folk Song Arrangement - Elisabeth Söderström/Orchestra of Welsh National O |
| 11 | Come you not from Newcastle?: Folk Song Arrangement - Elisabeth Söderström/Orchestra of Welsh National O |
| 12 | The Bonny Earl o' Moray: Folk Song Arrangement - Elisabeth Söderström/Orchestra of Welsh National O |
| 13 | Oliver Cromwell: Folk Song Arrangement - Elisabeth Söderström/Orchestra of Welsh National O |
| 14 | In May, in brilliant Athens: Phaedra, Op.93 - Felicity Palmer/Endymion Ensemble/John Whitfield |
| 15 | Oh Gods of wrath: Phaedra, Op.93 - Felicity Palmer/Endymion Ensemble/John Whitfield |
| 16 | My time's too short, your highness: Phaedra, Op.93 - Felicity Palmer/Endymion Ensemble/John Whitfield |
| 17 | La belle est au jardin d'amour: Folk Song Arrangements - Felicity Palmer/Endymion Ensemble/John Whitfield |
| 18 | Eho! Eho!: Folk Song Arrangements - Felicity Palmer/Endymion Ensemble/John Whitfield |
| 19 | Fileuse: Folk Song Arrangements - Felicity Palmer/Endymion Ensemble/John Whitfield |
| 20 | Quand j'étais chez mon père.: Folk Song Arrangements - Felicity Palmer/Endymion Ensemble/John Whitfield |
| 21 | Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse (The King goes a-hunting): Folk Song Arrangements - Felicity Palmer/Endymion Ensemble/John Whitfield |
| Disc 3 | |
| 01 | 1. Sì come nella penna e nell'inchiostro (XVI): Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 02 | 2. A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia (XXXI): Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 03 | 3. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume (XXX): Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 04 | 4. Tu sa' ch'io so, signior mie, che tu sai (LV): Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 05 | 5. Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume (XXXVIII): Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 06 | 6. S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna (XXXII): Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 07 | 7. Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede (XXIV): Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 08 | 1. Oh my black Soule!: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 09 | 2. Batter my heart: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 10 | 3. Oh might those sighes and teares: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 11 | 4. Oh, to vex me: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 12 | 5. What if this present: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 13 | 6. Since she whom I loved: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 14 | 7. At the round earth's imagined corners: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 15 | 8. Thou hast made me: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 16 | 9. Death, be not proud: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 (1993 Digital Remaster) - Sir Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten |
| 17 | 1. Let the florid music praise!: On This Island Op. 11 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 18 | 2. Now the leaves are falling fast: On This Island Op. 11 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 19 | 3. Seascape: On This Island Op. 11 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 20 | 4. Nocturne: On This Island Op. 11 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 21 | 5. As it is, plenty: On This Island Op. 11 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 22 | 1. At Day-close in November: Winter Words Op. 52 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 23 | 2. Midnight on the Great Western (or The Journeying Boy): Winter Words Op. 52 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 24 | 3. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire): Winter Words Op. 52 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 25 | 4. The Little Old Table: Winter Words Op. 52 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 26 | 5. The Choirmaster's Burial (or The Tenor Man's Story): Winter Words Op. 52 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 27 | 6. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales): Winter Words Op. 52 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 28 | 7. At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin): Winter Words Op. 52 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 29 | 8. Before Life and After: Winter Words Op. 52 (2000 Digital Remaster) - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| Disc 4 | |
| 01 | My beloved is mine, Op.40: Canticle I - Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake |
| 02 | Abraham and Isaac, Op.51: Canticle II - David Daniels/Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake |
| 03 | Still falls the rain, Op.55: Canticle III - Ian Bostridge/Timothy Brown/Julius Drake |
| 04 | Journey of the Magi, Op.86: Canticle IV - David Daniels/Ian Bostridge/Christopher Maltman/Ju |
| 05 | The Death of Saint Narcissus, Op.89: Canticle V - Ian Bostridge/Aline Brewer |
| 06 | The plough boy: Folk Song Arrangements - Christopher Maltman/Julius Drake |
| 07 | The Salley Gardens: Folksong Arrangements - Christopher Maltman/Julius Drake |
| 08 | The foggy, foggy dew: Folk Song Arrangements - Christopher Maltman/Julius Drake |
| 09 | There's none to soothe: Folk Song Arrangements - David Daniels/Julius Drake |
| 10 | O waly, waly: Folk Song Arrangements - David Daniels/Julius Drake |
| 11 | The ash grove: Folk Song Arrangements - Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake |
| 12 | Greensleves: Folk Song Arrangements - Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake |
| Disc 5 | |
| 01 | The Children and Sir Nameless: Two songs by Thomas Hardy - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 02 | If it's ever spring again: Two songs by Thomas Hardy - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 03 | 1. Beware! (Henry Longfellow, from the German): Beware! - Three Early Songs - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 04 | 2. O that I had ne'er been married (Robert Burns): Beware! - Three Early Songs - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 05 | 3. Epitaph: The Clerk (Herbert Asquith): Beware! - Three Early Songs - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 06 | Not even summer yet - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 07 | To lie flat on the back: Two songs by W. H. Auden - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 08 | Night covers up the rigid land: Two songs by W. H. Auden - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 09 | The Oxen (Christmas eve, and twelve of the clock) - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 10 | Dawtie's Devotion: Three rhymes by William Soutar - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 11 | Tradition: Three rhymes by William Soutar - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 12 | The Gully: Three rhymes by William Soutar - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 13 | A Song of Enchantment: Tit for Tat - Jonathan Lemalu/Malcolm Martineau |
| 14 | Silver: Tit for Tat - Jonathan Lemalu/Malcolm Martineau |
| 15 | Tit for Tat: Tit for Tat - Jonathan Lemalu/Malcolm Martineau |
| 16 | Mother Comfort (wds. M. Slater): 2 Ballads - Dame Felicity Lott/Ann Murray/Graham Johnson |
| 17 | Underneath the abject willow (wds. W. H. Auden): 2 Ballads - Dame Felicity Lott/Ann Murray/Graham Johnson |
| 18 | Sweet Polly Oliver: Folk Song Arrangement - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 19 | The Minstrel Boy (2000 Digital Remaster): Folk Song Arrangement - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 20 | The Brisk Young Widow (2000 Digital Remaster): Folk Song Arrangement - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 21 | Ca' the Yowes (2000 Digital Remaster): Folk Song Arrangement - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 22 | The Lincolnshire Poacher (2000 Digital Remaster): Folk Song Arrangement - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 23 | O can ye sew cushions? (2000 Digital Remaster): Folk Song Arrangement - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 24 | The trees they grow so high (2000 Digital Remaster): Folk Song Arrangement - Robert Tear/Sir Philip Ledger |
| 25 | Early one morning: Folk Song Arrangements - Sarah Brightman/Geoffrey Parsons |
| 26 | How sweet the answer: Folk Song Arrangements - Sarah Brightman/Geoffrey Parsons |
| 27 | Voici le printemps: Folk Song Arrangements - Sarah Brightman/Geoffrey Parsons |
| 28 | The last rose of summer: Folk Song Arrangements - Sarah Brightman/Geoffrey Parsons |
| 29 | Dear harp of my country: Folk Song Arrangements - Sarah Brightman/Geoffrey Parsons |
| 30 | Oft in the stilly night: Folk Song Arrangements - Sarah Brightman/Geoffrey Parsons |
| Disc 6 | |
| 01 | The Queen's Epicedium - Benjamin Britten/Sir Peter Pears |
| 02 | Sound the Trumpet: Come ye sons of art away Z323 - Dame Felicity Lott/Ann Murray/Graham Johnson |
| 03 | I attempt from love's sickness to fly (Dryden/Howard): The Indian Queen Z630 - Ann Murray/Graham Johnson |
| 04 | Lost is my quiet for ever Z502 - Dame Felicity Lott/Ann Murray/Graham Johnson |
| 05 | Fairest Isle (Dryden): King Arthur Z628 - Dame Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson |
| 06 | What can we poor females do Z518 - Graham Johnson |
| 07 | I'll sail upon the Dog-star (Thomas D'Urfey) Z571.6: Three realizations of Henry Purcell - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 08 | The Knotting Song (Charles Sedley) Z371: Three realizations of Henry Purcell - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 09 | Man is for the woman made (Peter Anthony Motteux) Z605.3: Three realizations of Henry Purcell - Neil Mackie/Roger Vignoles |
| 10 | 1. Let sullen discord smile (Nahum Tate) Z321.6: Suite of Songs from 'Orpheus Britannicus' - Neil Mackie/Steuart Bedford/John Tunnell |
| 11 | 2. Why should men quarrel? (John Dryden & Sir Robert Howard) Z630.4d: Suite of Songs from 'Orpheus Britannicus' - Neil Mackie/Steuart Bedford/John Tunnell |
| 12 | 3. So when the glittering Queen of Night (Thomas D'Urfey) Z333.11: Suite of Songs from 'Orpheus Britannicus' - Neil Mackie/Steuart Bedford/John Tunnell |
| 13 | 4. Thou tun'st this world (Nicholas Brady) Z328.6: Suite of Songs from 'Orpheus Britannicus' - Neil Mackie/Steuart Bedford/John Tunnell |
| 14 | 5a. 'Tis holiday (Nahum Tate) Z321.5 - 5b. Sound Fame thy brazen trumpet (Thomas Betterton & John Dryden) Z627.22: - Steuart Bedford |
| 15 | Die Forelle D550 (orch. Britten) - Neil Mackie/Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Steuart Bed |
| 16 | Frühlingsnacht: Liederkreis Op. 39 (orch. Britten) - Steuart Bedford |