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Vocal Works

Vocal Works

Album by Benjamin Britten

Released 4 August 2013
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  • CD 1
  • 1
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: Fanfare
    2:05
  • 2
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: Villes
    2:30
  • 3
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: Phrase
    1:07
  • 4
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: Antique
    2:04
  • 5
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: Royauté
    1:40
  • 6
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: Marine
    0:59
  • 7
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: Interlude
    2:14
  • 8
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: Being Beauteous
    3:56
  • 9
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: Parade
    2:39
  • 10
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: Départ
    2:37
  • 11
    Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Prologue
    1:20
  • 12
    Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Pastoral (Cotton)
    3:26
  • 13
    Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Nocturne (Tennyson)
    3:29
  • 14
    Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Elegy (Blake)
    4:10
  • 15
    Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Dirge (Anon)
    3:37
  • 16
    Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Hymn (Jonson)
    2:03
  • 17
    Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Sonnet (Keats)
    3:43
  • 18
    Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Epilogue
    1:30
  • 19
    Now sleeps the crimson petal
    3:04
  • 20
    Nocturne, op. 60: On a poet's lips I slept
    3:30
  • 21
    Nocturne, op. 60: Below the thunders of the upper deep
    3:29
  • 22
    Nocturne, op. 60: Encinctured with a twine of leaves
    2:13
  • 23
    Nocturne, op. 60: Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting
    2:24
  • 24
    Nocturne, op. 60: But that night when on my bed I lay
    3:03
  • 25
    Nocturne, op. 60: She sleeps on soft, last breaths
    4:38
  • 26
    Nocturne, op. 60: What is more gentle than a wind in summer
    3:01
  • 27
    Nocturne, op. 60: When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
    5:08
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Quatre Chansons françaises : 1. Les Nuits de juin (Victor Hugo)
    2:50
  • 2
    Quatre Chansons françaises : 2. Sagesse (Paul Verlaine)
    2:49
  • 3
    Quatre Chansons françaises : 3. L'Enfance (Victor Hugo)
    4:30
  • 4
    Quatre Chansons françaises : 4. Chansons d'automne (Paul Verlaine)
    2:33
  • 5
    Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : Prologue
    2:00
  • 6
    Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : A. Rats Away! (Anon)
    4:40
  • 7
    Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : B. Messalina (Anon)
    6:55
  • 8
    Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : C. Dance of Death (T. Ravenscroft)
    6:29
  • 9
    Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : Epilogue and Funeral March
    6:18
  • 10
    Folksong arrangements : Little Sir William
    2:32
  • 11
    Folksong arrangements : Come ye not from Newcastle?
    1:25
  • 12
    Folksong arrangements : Bonny Earl Moray
    2:37
  • 13
    Folksong arrangements : Oliver Cromwell
    0:48
  • 14
    Phaedra Op.93 : In May, in brilliant Athens
    6:32
  • 15
    Phaedra Op.93 : O Gods of wrath
    3:14
  • 16
    Phaedra Op.93 : My time's too short, your highness
    6:18
  • 17
    Five French folksong arrangements : La belle est au jardin d'amour
    2:52
  • 18
    Five French folksong arrangements : Eho! Eho!
    2:00
  • 19
    Five French folksong arrangements : Fileuse
    1:56
  • 20
    Five French folksong arrangements : Quand j'etais chez mon père
    2:00
  • 21
    Five French folksong arrangements : Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse
    2:51
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 1. Sì come nella penna (XVI)
    2:03
  • 2
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 2. A che più debb'io mai (XXXI)
    1:20
  • 3
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 3. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi (XXX)
    3:10
  • 4
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 4. Tu sa' ch'io so (LV)
    1:46
  • 5
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 5. Rendete a gli occhi miei (XXXVIII)
    1:50
  • 6
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 6. S'un casto amor (XXXII)
    1:15
  • 7
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 7. Spirito ben nato (XXIV)
    4:51
  • 8
    Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 1. Oh my blacke soule
    3:19
  • 9
    Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 2. Batter my heart
    1:13
  • 10
    Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 3. O might those sighes and teares
    3:04
  • 11
    Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 4. Oh, to vex me
    1:04
  • 12
    Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 5. What if this present
    2:57
  • 13
    Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 6. Since she whom I loved
    3:48
  • 14
    Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 7. At the round earth's imagined corners
    2:47
  • 15
    Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 8. Thou hast made me
    1:24
  • 16
    Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 9. Death, be not proud
    4:15
  • 17
    On This Island Op.11 : 1. Let the florid music praise!
    3:08
  • 18
    On This Island Op.11 : 2. Now the leaves are falling fast
    1:58
  • 19
    On This Island Op.11 : 3. Seascape
    1:58
  • 20
    On This Island Op.11 : 4. Nocturne
    3:59
  • 21
    On This Island Op.11 : 5. As it is; plenty
    1:29
  • 22
    Winter Words Op.52 : 1. At day-close in November
    1:34
  • 23
    Winter Words Op.52 : 2. Midnight on the Great Western
    4:45
  • 24
    Winter Words Op.52 : 3. Wagtail and Baby
    1:53
  • 25
    Winter Words Op.52 : 4. The Little Old Table
    1:21
  • 26
    Winter Words Op.52 : 5. The Choirmaster's Burial
    3:57
  • 27
    Winter Words Op.52 : 6. Proud Songsters
    1:07
  • 28
    Winter Words Op.52 : At the Railway Station, Upway
    3:06
  • 29
    Winter Words Op.52 : Before Life and After
    3:03
  • CD 4
  • 1
    Canticle 1: My Beloved is Mine, op.40
    7:53
  • 2
    Canticle 2: Abraham and Isaac, op.51
    17:04
  • 3
    Canticle 3: Still Falls the Rain, op.55
    11:42
  • 4
    Canticle 4: Journey of the Magi, op.86
    12:16
  • 5
    Canticle 5: The Death of Saint Narcissus, op.89
    7:49
  • 6
    The Plough Boy
    1:50
  • 7
    The Salley Gardens
    2:41
  • 8
    The foggy, foggy dew
    2:40
  • 9
    There's none to soothe
    1:48
  • 10
    O Waly, Waly
    3:54
  • 11
    The Ash Grove
    3:00
  • 12
    Greensleeves
    2:17
  • CD 5
  • 1
    Two Songs by Thomas Hardy : 1. The Childrfen and Sir Nameless
    2:51
  • 2
    Two Songs by Thomas Hardy : 2. If it's ever spring again
    3:06
  • 3
    Beware! - Three Early Songs : 1. Beware! (Longfellow, from the German)
    1:02
  • 4
    Beware! - Three Early Songs : 2. O that I had ne'er been married (Burns)
    1:23
  • 5
    Beware! - Three Early Songs : 3. Epitaph: The Clerk (Asquith)
    0:52
  • 6
    Not even summer yet (Burns)
    2:05
  • 7
    Two songs by W.H. Auden : To lie flat on the back
    2:32
  • 8
    Two songs by W.H. Auden : Night covers up the rigid land
    2:44
  • 9
    The Oxen
    3:10
  • 10
    Three rhymes by William Soutar : Dawlie's Devotion
    0:48
  • 11
    Three rhymes by William Soutar : Tradition
    0:56
  • 12
    Three rhymes by William Soutar : The Gully
    0:56
  • 13
    Tit for Tat : 1. A Song Echantment
    2:29
  • 14
    Tit for Tat : 3. Silver
    1:53
  • 15
    Tit for Tat : 5. Tit for Tat
    2:18
  • 16
    Two Ballads for voices and piano : 1. Mother Comfort
    3:41
  • 17
    Two Ballads for voices and piano : 2. Underneath the Abject Willow
    2:10
  • 18
    Folksong arrangements : Sweet Polly Oliver
    1:55
  • 19
    Folksong arrangements : The Minstrel Boy
    2:28
  • 20
    Folksong arrangements : The Brisk Young Widow
    2:14
  • 21
    Folksong arrangements : Ca' the Yowes
    3:53
  • 22
    Folksong arrangements : The Lincolnshire Poacher
    1:58
  • 23
    Folksong arrangements : O can ye sew cushions?
    2:23
  • 24
    Folksong arrangements : The trees they grow so high
    3:17
  • 25
    Folk songs : Early one morning
    3:31
    3.0 ★
  • 26
    Folk songs : How sweet the answer
    2:12
    3.0 ★
  • 27
    Folk songs : Voici le printemps
    2:00
    3.0 ★
  • 28
    Folk songs : The last rose of Summer
    4:31
    3.0 ★
  • 29
    Folk songs : Dear Harp of my Country!
    2:32
    3.0 ★
  • 30
    Folk songs : Oft in the stilly night
    2:48
    3.0 ★
  • CD 6
  • 1
    Realisations of music by Henry Purcell : The Queen's Epicedium
    7:54
  • 2
    from Orpheus Britannicus : Sound the Trumpet
    2:27
  • 3
    from Orpheus Britannicus : I attempt from love's sickness to fly
    2:46
  • 4
    from Orpheus Britannicus : Lost is my quiet for ever
    3:20
  • 5
    from Orpheus Britannicus : Fairest Isle
    2:10
  • 6
    from Orpheus Britannicus : What can we poor females do?
    1:18
  • 7
    from Orpheus Britannicus : I'll sail upon the Dog-star
    1:15
  • 8
    from Orpheus Britannicus : The Knotting Song
    3:02
  • 9
    from Orpheus Britannicus : Man is for the woman made
    1:07
  • 10
    Suite of Songs : 1. Let sullen discord smile
    2:06
  • 11
    Suite of Songs : 2. Why should men quarrel?
    1:31
  • 12
    Suite of Songs : 3. So when the glittering Queen of Night
    4:07
  • 13
    Suite of Songs : 4. Thou tun'st this world
    2:10
  • 14
    Suite of Songs : 5a. 'Tis holiday , 5b. Sound Fame thy brazen trumpet
    2:47
  • 15
    Schubert Die Forelle D550
    2:00
  • 16
    Schumann: Frühlingsnacht (No.12 from Liederkreis Op.39)
    1:13

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