Britten Conducts Britten

Tracklist

• CD 1: The Burning Fiery Furnace, op. 77
• 1
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: Salus Aeterna
  2:34
• 2
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: Good People, in His Holy Name
  5:01
• 3
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: By the Royal Command
  4:43
• 4
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: Adept in Magic
  4:00
• 5
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: The Waters of Babylon
  3:12
• 6
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: Sirs, What Is This?
  7:01
• 7
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: We Do Not Lack Enemies
  5:07
• 8
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: By the Royal Decree
  4:09
• 9
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: Procession
  3:08
• 10
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: Merodak! Lord of Creation!
  4:56
• 11
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: Bring Them Here Before My Majesty
  2:41
• 12
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: O King, Nebuchadnezzar
  2:09
• 13
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: O All Ye Works of the Lord
  3:01
• 14
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
  3:35
• 15
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: O Ye Winter and Summer
  3:41
• 16
  The Burning Fiery Furnace: Good People, We Have Shown You
  4:31
• CD 2: Curlew River, op. 71
• 1
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Te lucis ante terminum”
  7:19
• 2
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “I am the ferryman”
  3:08
• 3
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “I come from the Westland”
  4:36
• 4
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “But first may I ask you what is that strange noise?”
  2:41
• 5
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Clear as a sky without a cloud”
  2:22
• 6
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Near the Black Mountains there I dwelt”
  2:18
• 7
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “A thousand leagues may sunder a mother and her son”
  3:19
• 8
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Ignorant man! You refuse a passage to me …”
  2:10
• 9
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “I beg your pardon”
  4:52
• 10
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Curlew River, smoothly flowing …”
  2:14
• 11
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Today is an important day”
  5:32
• 12
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Look! While you were listening to my story …”
  2:44
• 13
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Ferryman, tell me, when did it happen?”
  6:24
• 14
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Hoping, I wandered on”
  3:30
• 15
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “He whose life was full of promise”
  2:21
• 16
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “The moon has risen”
  5:55
• 17
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Go your way in peace, mother”
  2:29
• 18
  Curlew River, church parable, op. 71 “Good souls, we have shown you…”
  5:13
• CD 3: The Prodigal Son, op. 81
• 1
  The Prodigal Son: Jam Lucis Orto Sidero (All Voices)
  2:49
• 2
  The Prodigal Son: Ah - You People (Tempter)
  3:55
• 3
  The Prodigal Son: The Ceremony
  2:14
• 4
  The Prodigal Son: I Am Father to You All (Father)
  6:39
• 5
  The Prodigal Son: Forgive My Asking You (Tempter)
  5:03
• 6
  The Prodigal Son: Father, May I Speak to You? (Younger Son)
  4:22
• 7
  The Prodigal Son: Take Your Due Portion (Father)
  4:15
• 8
  The Prodigal Son: Go, If You Must Go (Servants)
  3:35
• 9
  The Prodigal Son: Welcome, Welcome, Stranger! (Parasites)
  1:21
• 10
  The Prodigal Son: You Are Tired From a Long Journey (Tempter)
  2:55
• 11
  The Prodigal Son: Nights Are Days (Parasites)
  4:40
• 12
  The Prodigal Son: You Have Gambled and Lost (Tempter)
  5:21
• 13
  The Prodigal Son: Now - I Have Done What I Said (Tempter)
  1:25
• 14
  The Prodigal Son: With Joy I Sowed (Younger Son)
  5:06
• 15
  The Prodigal Son: My Son (Father)
  3:24
• 16
  The Prodigal Son: O Sing Unto the Lord (Servants)
  6:08
• 17
  The Prodigal Son: My Children, You Have Seen (Abbot)
  5:09
• CD 4: Noye’s Fludd, op. 59 / The Golden Vanity, op. 7
• 1
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: I. Lord Jesus, think on me
  3:09
• 2
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: II. I God, that all this worlde hath wroughte
  2:05
• 3
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: III. Have done, you men and wemen all
  2:39
• 4
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: IV. Now in the name of God I will begyne
  4:18
• 5
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: V. Noye, Noye, take thou thy company
  6:07
• 6
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: VI. Wiffe, come in! why standes thou their?
  5:09
• 7
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: VII. Ha! Children, me thinkes my botte removes
  8:18
• 8
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: VIII. Now forty dayes are fullie gone
  5:10
• 9
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: IX. Noye, take thy wife anone
  2:39
• 10
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: X. Noye, heare I behette thee a heste
  1:15
• 11
  Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: XI. The spacious firmament on high
  7:17
• 12
  The Golden Vanity, Op. 78: I. There was a ship came from the North Country
  6:21
• 13
  The Golden Vanity, Op. 78: II. Then up spake the cabin-boy
  3:19
• 14
  The Golden Vanity, Op. 78: III. Casting his clothes off, he dived into the sea
  4:39
• 15
  The Golden Vanity, Op. 78: IV. They laid him on the deck
  3:18
• CD 5: The Little Sweep (Let’s Make an Opera), op. 45 / Gemini Variations, op. 73 (Quartet For Two Players) & Children’s Crusade, op. 82
• 1
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Sweep! Sweep!
  2:00
• 2
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Sweep this chimney
  1:59
• 3
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Now, little white boy!
  4:03
• 4
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Pull the rope gently until he is free!
  1:42
• 5
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Is he wounded?
  1:29
• 6
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Sooty tracks
  2:24
• 7
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Run, poor sweep-boy
  4:18
• 8
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: The kettles are singing
  2:45
• 9
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: O why do you weep
  3:07
• 10
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Ah!…Blackguards!
  4:16
• 11
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Help! Help! She’s collapsed!
  2:06
• 12
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: The owl, wide‐winging through the sky
  4:05
• 13
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Soon the coach will carry you away
  2:28
• 14
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Morning, Sammy! Lovely weather
  1:51
• 15
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Ready, Alfred?
  2:51
• 16
  The Little Sweep (Let’s make an opera), op. 45: Coaching song: The horses are champing
  2:32
• 17
  Gemini Variations, op. 73 (Quartet for Two Players)
  14:45
• 18
  The Children’s Crusade, op. 82
  19:01
• CD 6: Saint Nicolas, op. 42 / Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30
• 1
  Saint Nicolas: Introduction
  5:18
• 2
  Saint Nicolas: The birth of Nicolas
  2:25
• 3
  Saint Nicolas: Nicolas devotes himself to God
  4:21
• 4
  Saint Nicolas: He journeys to Palestine
  7:36
• 5
  Saint Nicolas: Nicolas comes to Myra and is chosen Bishop
  6:53
• 6
  Saint Nicolas: Nicolas from Prison
  3:03
• 7
  Saint Nicolas: Nicolas and the Pickled Boys
  6:27
• 8
  Saint Nicolas: His Piety and Marvellous Works
  5:11
• 9
  Saint Nicolas: The Death of Nicolas
  6:28
• 10
  Rejoice in the Lamb: Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues
  3:53
• 11
  Rejoice in the Lamb: For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey
  2:05
• 12
  Rejoice in the Lamb: For the Mouse is a creature of great personal valour
  1:00
• 13
  Rejoice in the Lamb: For the flowers are great blessings
  2:05
• 14
  Rejoice in the Lamb: For I am under the same accusation
  2:27
• 15
  Rejoice in the Lamb: For H is a spirit
  4:26
• CD 7: A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28 / A Boy Was Born, op. 3 / Songs From “Friday Afternoon”, op. 7 & Psalm 150, op. 67
• 1
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Procession
  1:19
• 2
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Wolcum Yole!
  1:22
• 3
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: There Is No Rose
  2:11
• 4
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: That Yonge Child
  1:39
• 5
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Balulalow
  1:19
• 6
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: As Dew in Aprille
  1:02
• 7
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: This Little Babe
  1:25
• 8
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Interlude
  3:10
• 9
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: In the Freezing Winter Night
  3:58
• 10
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Spring Carol
  1:04
• 11
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Deo Gracias - Adam Lay Ibounden
  1:11
• 12
  A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Recession
  1:14
• 13
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Theme
  2:02
• 14
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation I: Lullay, Jesu
  4:17
• 15
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation II: Herod
  2:09
• 16
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation III: Jesu, as Thou Art Our Saviour
  2:32
• 17
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation IV: The Three Kings
  3:35
• 18
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation V: In the Bleak Mid-Winter
  4:51
• 19
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation VI: Finale - Noel!
  8:51
• 20
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: Begone Dull Care!
  0:56
• 21
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: A Tragic Story
  1:35
• 22
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: Cuckoo!
  1:36
• 23
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: A New Year Carol
  2:01
• 24
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: I Mun Be Married on Sunday
  1:10
• 25
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: There Was a Man of Newington
  0:31
• 26
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: Fishing Song
  2:08
• 27
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: The Useful Plough
  2:22
• 28
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: Jazz-Man
  0:45
• 29
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: There Was a Monkey
  1:29
• 30
  Songs from “Friday Afternoons”, op. 7: Old Abram Brown
  3:28
• 31
  Psalm 150
  5:11
• CD 8: Spring Symphony, op. 44 / Cantata Academica (Carmen Basiliense), op. 62 / Hymn To St. Cecilia, op. 27
• 1
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 1. Introduction: Shine out
  8:53
• 2
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 2. The merry cuckoo
  1:57
• 3
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 3. Spring: the sweet Spring
  1:49
• 4
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 4. The driving boy
  2:04
• 5
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 5. The morning star
  3:12
• 6
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 6. Welcome Maids of Honour
  2:39
• 7
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 7. Waters above!
  2:34
• 8
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 8. Out on the lawn I lie in bed
  6:07
• 9
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 9. When will my May come
  2:27
• 10
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 10. Fair and fair
  2:12
• 11
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 11. Sound the flute!
  1:18
• 12
  Spring Symphony, op. 44: 12. Finale: London: to thee I do present
  7:38
• 13
  Cantata Academica: (Carmen basiliense), op. 62: I. Bonorum summun omnium / II. Quae bene beateque
  2:56
• 14
  Cantata Academica: (Carmen basiliense), op. 62: III. At huius caelestis… / V. Tum vero Aeneas Sylvius virtus
  3:24
• 15
  Cantata Academica: (Carmen basiliense), op. 62: VI. Et gubernacula. / VII. Ut ad longaeva tempora
  3:39
• 16
  Cantata Academica: (Carmen basiliense), op. 62: VIII. Docendi ac discendi
  3:31
• 17
  Cantata Academica: (Carmen basiliense), op. 62: IX. Rhenana erga omnes. / X. Ut instissime / XI. O cives..
  4:33
• 18
  Cantata Academica: (Carmen basiliense), op. 62: XII. Nos autem cuncti. / XIII. Vigeatque academia libera
  2:51
• 19
  Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), op. 27: In a garden shady
  2:48
• 20
  Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), op. 27: I cannot grow
  1:54
• 21
  Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), op. 27: O ear whose creatures
  5:54
• CD 9: War Requiem, op. 66
• 1
  War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: Requiem Aeternam
  5:56
• 2
  War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: What Passing-Bells for These Who Die as Cattle?
  3:32
• 3
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Dies Irae
  3:37
• 4
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Bugles Sang
  2:34
• 5
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Liber Scriptus Proferetur
  2:57
• 6
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Out There
  1:57
• 7
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Recordare Jesu Pie
  4:49
• 8
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Be Slowly Lifted Up
  1:52
• 9
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Dies Irae
  1:12
• 10
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Lacrimosa Dies Illa
  1:54
• 11
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Move Him Into the Sun
  4:47
• 12
  War Requiem, op. 66: III. Domine Jesu Christe
  3:31
• 13
  War Requiem, op. 66: III. So Abram Rose
  6:07
• 14
  War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
  6:02
• 15
  War Requiem, op. 66: IV. After the Blast of Lightning
  3:52
• CD 10: War Requiem, op. 66 / Rehearsing “War Requiem”
• 1
  War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus dei: One Ever Hangs
  3:44
• 2
  War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: Libera Me, Domine
  7:37
• 3
  War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: It Seemed That Out of Battle I Escaped
  9:34
• 4
  War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: Let Us Sleep Now... In Paradisum
  5:37
• 5
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Requiem Aeternam (rehearsal)
  7:19
• 6
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Dies Irae: Rehearsal of the opening section
  9:46
• 7
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Dies Irae: Discussion in the control room between Britten and Galina Vishnevskaya (via her interpreter), then between John Culshaw and Galina Vishnevskaya

  [dialogue]
  2:04
• 8
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Dies Irae: Rehearsal of end of movement
  4:37
• 9
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Offertorium (rehearsal)
  8:22
• 10
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Sanctus (rehearsal)
  6:15
• 11
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Sanctus: Discussion in the control room between Britten and Galina Vishnevskaya (via her interpreter)

  [dialogue]
  0:18
• 12
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Agnus Dei: Discussion in the control room between Britten, Peter Pears and John Culshaw

  [dialogue]
  1:05
• 13
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Libera Me: Discussion in the control room between Britten and John Culshaw

  [dialogue]
  1:11
• 14
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Libera Me (rehearsal)
  5:20
• 15
  Rehearsing War Requiem: Libera Me: Rehearsal of closing page
  3:17

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Release credits

• Adrian Thompson
  lead vocals [18]
• Aldeburgh Festival Choir
  choir vocals [1-9]
• Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1-9]
• Barnaby Jago
  lead vocals [18]
• Benjamin Britten
  conductor [1.1-16, 9.1-15, 10.1-4, 8.1-12, 5.1-16, 5.18, 2.1-18, 3.1-17, 7.1-31, 6.1-15], piano [12-15]
• Boys' Choir of Ipswich School Preparatory Department
  choir vocals [1-9]
• Brian Elton
  percussion [18]
• Choir of All Saints Church, Margaret Street
  choir vocals [13-19]
• Chris Tingley
  percussion [18]
• Colin Morris
  lead vocals [18]
• David Hemmings
  treble vocals [1-9]
• Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau
  baritone vocals [9.4, 9.6, 9.8, 9.13, 9.15, 10.3-4]
• Donald Francke
  bass vocals [10-15]
• Downside School Choir
  choir vocals [20-31]
• English Chamber Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1, 3-9, 11]
• English Opera Group
  performer [1.1-16, 3.1-17, 2.1-18], performing orchestra [1-16], vocal [13-19]
• Enid Simon
  harp [1-12]
• Eric Crees
  percussion [18]
• Gabriel Jeney
  piano [17], violin [17]
• George Malcolm
  conductor [13-21], organ [10-15]
• Girls' Choir of Sir John Leman School, Beccles
  choir vocals [1-9]
• Gordon Parry
  recording [13-19]
• Graham Harbage
  percussion [18]
• Graham Preston
  lead vocals [18]
• Helen Watts
  contralto vocals [14, 17]
• Ian Cobb
  piano [18]
• James Lock
  recording [31]
• Jennifer Vyvyan
  performer [3], soprano vocals [14]
• John Clegg
  piano [18]
• John Culshaw
  producer [1-12, 20-31]
• John Tobin
  percussion [18]
• John Wojciechowski
  lead vocals [18]
• Jonathan Smith
  organ [18]
• Jonathan Steele
  alto vocals [10-15]
• Kenneth Wilkinson
  recording [13-19]
• Københavns Drengekor
  choir vocals [1-12]
• London Symphony Chorus
  choir vocals [10.1-2, 10.4, 9.1-3, 9.5, 9.7, 9.9-14, 8.13-21]
• London Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [8.13-18, 9.1-3, 9.5, 9.7-14, 10.1-2, 10.4]
• Mark Emney
  lead vocals [18]
• Melos Ensemble
  performer [10.1, 10.3-4, 9.1-2, 9.4, 9.6, 9.8, 9.11-13, 9.15]
• Michael Hartnett
  treble vocals [10-15]
• Michael Mailes
  recording [20-30]
• Norman Del Mar
  conductor [1, 3-9, 11]
• Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
  performing orchestra [1-12]
• Owen Brannigan
  bass vocals [14, 17], bass-baritone vocals [2-9, 11]
• Peter Pears
  tenor vocals [6.1-9, 9.2, 9.6, 9.11, 9.13, 10.1, 10.3-4, 8.14-15, 8.17]
• Philip Todd
  tenor vocals [10-15]
• Purcell Singers
  choir vocals [6.10-15, 7.13-19]
• Ralph Downes
  organ [1-9]
• Raymond Hares
  lead vocals [18]
• Richard Courtney
  percussion [18]
• Russell Burgess
  conductor [4.12-15, 5.18]
• Sheila Rex
  contralto vocals [3-4, 6-7, 9, 11]
• Simon Preston
  organ [1, 12-13]
• Sir David Willcocks
  chorus master [9.1-3, 9.5, 9.7, 9.9-14, 10.1-2, 10.4]
• Stephen Daniels
  lead vocals [18]
• The Bach Choir
  choir vocals [10.1-2, 10.4, 9.1-3, 9.5, 9.7, 9.9-14]
• Trevor Anthony
  performer [5]
• Viola Tunnard
  piano [20-30]
• Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
  choir vocals [5.18, 4.12-15]
• Zoltán Jeney
  flute [17], piano [17]
• Галина Вишневская
  soprano vocals [10.2, 10.4, 9.5, 9.10-11, 9.14]
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