The Masterpieces

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Theme: Allegro maestoso e largamente

  Benjamin Britten
  1:57
• 2
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation A: Flutes & Piccolo: Presto

  Benjamin Britten
  0:32
• 3
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation B: Oboes: Lento

  Benjamin Britten
  1:04
• 4
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation C: Clarinets: Moderato

  Benjamin Britten
  0:37
• 5
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation D: Bassoons: Allegro alla marcia

  Benjamin Britten
  0:53
• 6
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation E: Violins: Brillante - alla polacca

  Benjamin Britten
  0:36
• 7
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation F: Violas: Meno mosso

  Benjamin Britten
  0:59
• 8
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation G: Cellos

  Benjamin Britten
  1:17
• 9
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation H: Double Basses: Cominciando lento ma poco a poco accelerando

  Benjamin Britten
  0:58
• 10
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation I: Harp: Maestoso

  Benjamin Britten
  0:49
• 11
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation J: Horns: L'istesso tempo

  Benjamin Britten
  0:44
• 12
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation K: Trumpets: Vivace

  Benjamin Britten
  0:33
• 13
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation L: Trombones & Bass Tuba: Allegro pomposo

  Benjamin Britten
  0:58
• 14
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Variation M: Percussion: Moderato

  Benjamin Britten
  1:47
• 15
  The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34, without spoken text: Fugue: Allegro molto

  Benjamin Britten
  2:46
• 16
  Simple Symphony, op. 4: I. Boisterous Bourrée

  Benjamin Britten
  3:25
• 17
  Simple Symphony, op. 4: II. Playful Pizzicato

  Benjamin Britten
  3:04
• 18
  Simple Symphony, op. 4: III. Sentimental Saraband

  Benjamin Britten
  7:54
• 19
  Simple Symphony, op. 4: IV. Frolicsome Finale

  Benjamin Britten
  2:59
• 20
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: I. Introduction & Theme

  Benjamin Britten
  1:57
• 21
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: II. Adagio

  Benjamin Britten
  2:24
• 22
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: III. March

  Benjamin Britten
  1:07
• 23
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: IV. Romance

  Benjamin Britten
  1:37
• 24
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: V. Aria Italiana

  Benjamin Britten
  1:19
• 25
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: VI. Bourrée Classique

  Benjamin Britten
  1:17
• 26
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: VII. Wiener Waltzer

  Benjamin Britten
  2:41
• 27
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: VIII. Moto Perpetuo

  Benjamin Britten
  1:10
• 28
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: IX. Funeral March

  Benjamin Britten
  3:59
• 29
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: X. Chant

  Benjamin Britten
  1:39
• 30
  Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10: 1I. Fugue & Finale

  Benjamin Britten
  7:35
• 31
  Peter Grimes, op. 33, Prologue: Interlude I: On the beach

  Benjamin Britten
  3:34
• 32
  Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 1: Interlude II: The Storm

  Benjamin Britten
  4:19
• 33
  Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 2: Interlude III: Sunday morning by the beach

  Benjamin Britten
  3:55
• 34
  Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 3: Interlude V: Evening

  Benjamin Britten
  4:28
• CD 2
• 1
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Procession

  Benjamin Britten
  1:31
• 2
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Wolcom Yule!

  Benjamin Britten
  1:27
• 3
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: There is no rose

  Benjamin Britten
  2:32
• 4
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: That yongë child

  Benjamin Britten
  1:54
• 5
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Balulalow

  Benjamin Britten
  1:19
• 6
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: As dew in Aprille

  Benjamin Britten
  1:08
• 7
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: This little Babe

  Benjamin Britten
  1:32
• 8
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Interlude

  Rachel Masters
  4:03
• 9
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: In freezing winter night

  Benjamin Britten
  3:40
• 10
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Spring Carol

  Benjamin Britten
  1:16
• 11
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Deo Gracias

  Benjamin Britten
  1:16
• 12
  Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Recession

  Benjamin Britten
  1:37
• 13
  A boy was born, op. 3: A Boy Was Born (theme)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:02
• 14
  A boy was born, op. 3: Variation 1: Lullay, Jesu

  Benjamin Britten
  4:11
• 15
  A boy was born, op. 3: Variation 2: Herod

  Benjamin Britten
  2:23
• 16
  A boy was born, op. 3: Variation 3: Jesu As Thou Art Our Saviour

  Benjamin Britten
  2:53
• 17
  A boy was born, op. 3: Variation 4: The Three Kings

  Benjamin Britten
  2:56
• 18
  A boy was born, op. 3: Variation 5: in the Bleak Mid-Winter

  Benjamin Britten
  4:44
• 19
  A boy was born, op. 3: Variation 6: Finale: Noel!

  Benjamin Britten
  8:57
• 20
  A Hymn to the Virgin

  Benjamin Britten
  3:18
• 21
  Festival Te Deum, op. 32 (1944)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:59
• 22
  Jubilate Deo in C (1961)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:43
• 23
  Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), op. 27: In a garden shady

  Benjamin Britten
  2:50
• 24
  Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), op. 27: I cannot grow

  Benjamin Britten
  1:55
• 25
  Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), op. 27: O ear whose creatures

  Benjamin Britten
  5:55
• CD 3
• 1
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: Begone, dull care

  Benjamin Britten
  0:59
• 2
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: A tragic story

  Benjamin Britten
  1:37
• 3
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: Cuckoo!

  Benjamin Britten
  1:39
• 4
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: A New Year carol

  Benjamin Britten
  2:04
• 5
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: I mun be married on Sunday

  Benjamin Britten
  1:13
• 6
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: There was a man of Newington

  Benjamin Britten
  0:34
• 7
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: Fishing song

  Benjamin Britten
  2:10
• 8
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: The useful plough

  Benjamin Britten
  2:23
• 9
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: Jazz-man

  Benjamin Britten
  0:48
• 10
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: There was a monkey

  Benjamin Britten
  1:31
• 11
  Songs From "Friday Afternoons", op. 7: Old Abram Brown

  Benjamin Britten
  3:31
• 12
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: Lord Jesus, think on me

  Benjamin Britten
  3:06
• 13
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: I God, that all this worlde hath wroughte

  Benjamin Britten
  2:05
• 14
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: Have done, you men and wemen all

  Benjamin Britten
  2:38
• 15
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: Now in the name of God I will begyne

  Benjamin Britten
  4:18
• 16
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: Noye, Noye, take thou thy company

  Benjamin Britten
  6:07
• 17
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: Wiffe, come in! why standes thou their?

  Benjamin Britten
  5:09
• 18
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: Ha! Children, me thinkes my botte removes

  Benjamin Britten
  8:18
• 19
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: Now forty dayes are fullie gone

  Benjamin Britten
  5:10
• 20
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: Noye, take thy wife anone

  Benjamin Britten
  2:39
• 21
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: Noye, heare I behette thee a heste

  Benjamin Britten
  1:15
• 22
  Noye's Fludde, op. 59, The Chester Miracle Play set to music: The spacious firmament on high

  Benjamin Britten
  7:23
• CD 4
• 1
  Les Illuminations, op. 18: I. Fanfare

  Benjamin Britten
  1:52
• 2
  Les Illuminations, op. 18: II. Villes

  Benjamin Britten
  2:32
• 3
  Les Illuminations, op. 18: IIIa. Phrase

  Benjamin Britten
  0:58
• 4
  Les Illuminations, op. 18: IIIb. Antique

  Benjamin Britten
  2:10
• 5
  Les Illuminations, op. 18: IV. Royauté

  Benjamin Britten
  1:37
• 6
  Les Illuminations, op. 18: V. Marine

  Benjamin Britten
  1:02
• 7
  Les Illuminations, op. 18: VI. Interlude

  Benjamin Britten
  2:22
• 8
  Les Illuminations, op. 18: VII. Being beauteous

  Benjamin Britten
  4:05
• 9
  Les Illuminations, op. 18: VIII. Parade

  Benjamin Britten
  2:48
• 10
  Les Illuminations, op. 18: IX. Départ

  Benjamin Britten
  2:40
• 11
  Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, op. 31: Prologue

  Benjamin Britten
  1:23
• 12
  Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, op. 31: Pastoral: The Day's Grown Old

  Benjamin Britten
  3:37
• 13
  Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, op. 31: Nocturne: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls

  Benjamin Britten
  3:21
• 14
  Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, op. 31: Elegy: O Rose, Thou Art Sick

  Benjamin Britten
  4:03
• 15
  Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, op. 31: Dirge: This Ae Night

  Benjamin Britten
  3:45
• 16
  Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, op. 31: Hymn: Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair

  Benjamin Britten
  2:02
• 17
  Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, op. 31: Sonnet: O Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight

  Benjamin Britten
  4:09
• 18
  Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, op. 31: Epilogue

  Benjamin Britten
  1:33
• 19
  Violin Concerto, op. 15: I. Moderato con moto

  Benjamin Britten
  9:32
• 20
  Violin Concerto, op. 15: II. Vivace

  Benjamin Britten
  8:35
• 21
  Violin Concerto, op. 15: III. Passacaglia; Andante lento

  Benjamin Britten
  14:29

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Release credits

• Andrew Kitchen
  assistant [19-21]
• Barry Tuckwell
  horn [11-18], solo [11, 18]
• Benjamin Britten
  conductor [1.1-34, 3.1-11, 4.1-10, 4.12-17]
• Brian Runnett
  organ [21-22]
• Cambridge University Chamber Choir
  choir vocals [13, 13-14, 14, 14-15, 15, 15-16, 16, 16-17, 17, 17-18, 18, 18-19, 19]
• Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
  choir vocals [1, 1-2, 2, 2-3, 3, 3-4, 4, 4-5, 5, 5-6, 6, 6-7, 7, 7-8, 8, 8-9, 9, 9-10, 10, 10-11, 11, 11-12, 12, 12-13, 13, 13-14, 14, 14-15, 15, 15-16, 16, 16-17, 17, 17-18, 18, 18-19, 19]
• Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
  choir vocals [20-22]
• Chris Hazell
  producer [1-19]
• Christopher Raeburn
  producer [31-34]
• David Harvey
  producer [16-19]
• Downside School Choir
  choir vocals [1-11]
• English Chamber Orchestra
  performing orchestra [3.12, 3.14-20, 3.22, 1.16-30, 4.1-10]
• Erik Smith
  producer [1.1-15, 1.31-34, 4.11-18]
• George Guest
  conductor [20-22]
• Gordon Parry
  engineer [16-30], recording [1-15]
• Ian Watson
  editor [19-21]
• Janine Jansen
  violin [19-21]
• Jenni Whiteside
  editor [19-21]
• John Culshaw
  producer [4.1-10, 1.20-30, 3.1-11]
• John McFadzean
  treble vocals [1, 1-2, 2, 2-3, 3, 3-4, 4, 4-5, 5, 5-6, 6, 6-7, 7, 7-8, 8, 8-9, 9, 9-10, 10, 10-11, 11, 11-12, 12]
• Kenneth Wilkinson
  engineer [16-19], recording [31-34]
• Ladies From The Cambridge University Chamber Choir
  performer [13-19]
• London Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [4.12-17, 4.19-21, 1.1-15]
• Marcus Body
  treble vocals [1, 1-2, 2, 2-3, 3, 3-4, 4, 4-5, 5, 5-6, 6, 6-7, 7, 7-8, 8, 8-9, 9, 9-10, 10, 10-11, 11, 11-12, 12]
• Michael Mailes
  recording [1-11]
• Michael Pearce
  treble vocals [1, 1-2, 2, 2-3, 3, 3-4, 4, 4-5, 5, 5-6, 6, 6-7, 7, 7-8, 8, 8-9, 9, 9-10, 10, 10-11, 11, 11-12, 12]
• Norman Del Mar
  conductor [12, 14-20, 22]
• Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
  performing orchestra [31-34]
• Owen Brannigan
  bass-baritone vocals [13-20, 22]
• Paavo Järvi
  conductor [19-21]
• Peter Pears
  tenor vocals [1-10, 12-17]
• Peter Winn
  treble vocals [1, 1-2, 2, 2-3, 3, 3-4, 4, 4-5, 5, 5-6, 6, 6-7, 7, 7-8, 8, 8-9, 9, 9-10, 10, 10-11, 11, 11-12, 12]
• Philip Siney
  engineer [19-21]
• Philip Traugott
  producer [19-21]
• Rachel Masters
  harp [1, 1-2, 2, 2-3, 3, 3-4, 4, 4-5, 5, 5-6, 6, 6-7, 7, 7-8, 8, 8-9, 9, 9-10, 10, 10-11, 11, 11-12, 12]
• Roxy Pope
  assistant [19-21]
• Rupert Johnston
  treble vocals [1, 1-2, 2, 2-3, 3, 3-4, 4, 4-5, 5, 5-6, 6, 6-7, 7, 7-8, 8, 8-9, 9, 9-10, 10, 10-11, 11, 11-12, 12]
• Sheila Rex
  contralto vocals [14-15, 17-18, 20, 22]
• Simon Eadon
  engineer [1-19]
• Stephen Cleobury
  conductor [1, 1-2, 2, 2-3, 3, 3-4, 4, 4-5, 5, 5-6, 6, 6-7, 7, 7-8, 8, 8-9, 9, 9-10, 10, 10-11, 11, 11-12, 12, 12-13, 13, 13-14, 14, 14-15, 15, 15-16, 16, 16-17, 17, 17-18, 18, 18-19, 19]
• Thomas Rose
  treble vocals [1, 1-2, 2, 2-3, 3, 3-4, 4, 4-5, 5, 5-6, 6, 6-7, 7, 7-8, 8, 8-9, 9, 9-10, 10, 10-11, 11, 11-12, 12, 12-13, 13, 13-14, 14, 14-15, 15, 15-16, 16, 16-17, 17, 17-18, 18, 18-19, 19]
• Trevor Anthony
  performer [16]
• Viola Tunnard
  piano [1-11]
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  The Masterpieces

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  The Masterpieces

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  17 June 2013