Vocal Works - Benjamin Britten

Vocal Works

Album by Benjamin Britten

Released 4 August 2013

Tracklist

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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Release credits

Aline Brewer
harp [5]
Andrew Keener
producer [1.11-19, 2.17-21]
Ann Murray
mezzo-soprano vocals [2]
Arthur S. Clarke
balance [1-7]
Barry Tuckwell
French horn [11-19], horn [11-19]
Benjamin Britten
arranger [2], piano [1-16]
Charles Anderson
balance [8-16]
Christopher Bishop
producer [1-10]
Christopher Maltman
baritone vocals [4, 6-8]
Christopher Parker
balance [1-10]
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
performing orchestra [1-4]
David Daniels
countertenor vocals [2, 4, 9-10]
David Groves
producer [20-27]
Elisabeth Söderström
solo [5-13], soprano vocals [5-13]
Endymion
performing orchestra [17-21]
English Chamber Orchestra
performing orchestra [20-27]
Felicity Lott
soprano vocals [2]
Felicity Palmer
mezzo-soprano vocals [17-21]
Graham Johnson
piano [2]
Heather Harper
soprano vocals [1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 10]
Ian Bostridge
tenor vocals [1-5, 11-12]
Jeffrey Tate
conductor [20-27]
Jill Gomez
soprano vocals [1, 4]
John Whitfield
conductor [17-21]
John Willan
producer [1-4]
Julius Drake
piano [1-4, 6-12]
Lawrance Collingwood
producer [8-16]
Mark Vigars
balance [20-27]
Michael Sheady
balance [1-4]
Mike Clements
balance [17-21], engineer [11-19]
Neil Mackie
tenor vocals [11-19]
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera
performing orchestra [5-13]
Peter Pears
tenor vocals [1, 1-16]
Philip Ledger
piano [5.18-24, 3.17-29], solo [5.18-24, 3.17-29]
Richard Armstrong
conductor [5-13]
Robert Tear
solo [5.18-24, 3.17-29], tenor vocals [5.18-24, 1.20-27, 3.17-29]
Royal Northern Sinfonia
performing orchestra [1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 10]
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
performing orchestra [11-19]
Simon Rattle
conductor [1-4]
Sir Neville Marriner
conductor [1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 10]
Steuart Bedford
conductor [11-19]
Timothy Brown
horn [3]
Walter Legge
producer [1-7]

Issues

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Vocal Works
6x CD
4 August 2013