British Composers: Britten: Winter Words etc.

Compilation by Benjamin Britten; Robert Tear, Sir Philip Ledger

Released 2000

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    On This Island, Op. 11: 1. Let the florid music praise!
    Benjamin Britten
    3:08
  • 2
    On This Island, Op. 11: 2. Now the leaves are falling fast
    Benjamin Britten
    1:58
  • 3
    On This Island, Op. 11: 3. Seascape
    Benjamin Britten
    1:58
  • 4
    On This Island, Op. 11: 4. Nocturne
    Benjamin Britten
    3:59
  • 5
    On This Island, Op. 11: 5. As it is, plenty
    Benjamin Britten
    1:31
  • 6
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Foggy, Foggy Dew
    Benjamin Britten
    2:24
  • 7
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Plough Boy
    Benjamin Britten
    1:44
  • 8
    Folk Song Arrangements: Sweet Polly Oliver
    Benjamin Britten
    1:53
  • 9
    Folk Song Arrangements: O Waly, Waly
    Benjamin Britten
    3:50
  • 10
    Folk Song Arrangements: Come you not from Newcastle?
    Benjamin Britten
    1:14
  • 11
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Minstrel Boy
    Benjamin Britten
    2:28
  • 12
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Brisk Young Widow
    Benjamin Britten
    2:14
  • 13
    Folk Song Arrangements: Ca' the Yowes
    Benjamin Britten
    3:53
  • 14
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Lincolnshire Poacher
    Benjamin Britten
    1:59
  • 15
    Folk Song Arrangements: Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse
    Benjamin Britten
    1:58
  • 16
    Folk Song Arrangements: La belle est au jardin d'amour
    Benjamin Britten
    2:27
  • 17
    Folk Song Arrangements: Quand j'étais chez mon père
    Benjamin Britten
    1:46
  • 18
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Salley Gardens
    Benjamin Britten
    2:29
  • 19
    Folk Song Arrangements: Little Sir William
    Benjamin Britten
    2:39
  • 20
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Bonny Earl o' Moray
    Benjamin Britten
    2:07
  • 21
    Folk Song Arrangements: O can ye sew cushions?
    Benjamin Britten
    2:23
  • 22
    Folk Song Arrangements: The trees they grow so high
    Benjamin Britten
    3:12
  • 23
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Ash Grove
    Benjamin Britten
    2:23
  • 24
    Folk Song Arrangements: Oliver Cromwell
    Benjamin Britten
    0:40
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 1. Sì come nella penna e nell'inchiostro (XVI)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:02
  • 2
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 2. A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia (XXXI)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:34
  • 3
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 3. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume (XXX)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:31
  • 4
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 4. Tu sa' ch'io so, signior mie, che tu sai (LV)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:48
  • 5
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 5. Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume (XXXVIII)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:44
  • 6
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 6. S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna (XXXII)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:13
  • 7
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 7. Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede (XXIV)
    Benjamin Britten
    4:28
  • 8
    Canticle I: My beloved is mine, Op. 40
    Benjamin Britten
    7:48
  • 9
    Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, Op. 51
    Benjamin Britten
    15:36
  • 10
    Canticle III: Still falls the rain, Op. 55
    Benjamin Britten
    11:35
  • 11
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 1. At Day-close in November
    Benjamin Britten
    1:34
  • 12
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 2. Midnight on the Great Western (or the Journeying Boy)
    Benjamin Britten
    4:46
  • 13
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 3. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:53
  • 14
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 4. The Little Old Table
    Benjamin Britten
    1:21
  • 15
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 5. The Choirmaster's Burial (or The Tenor Man's Story)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:57
  • 16
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 6. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:07
  • 17
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 7. At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:06
  • 18
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 8. Before Life and After
    Benjamin Britten
    3:03

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