Vocal Works

by Benjamin Britten

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. Les Illuminations, op. 18: Fanfare2:05
  2. Les Illuminations, op. 18: Villes2:30
  3. Les Illuminations, op. 18: Phrase1:07
  4. Les Illuminations, op. 18: Antique2:04
  5. Les Illuminations, op. 18: Royauté1:40
  6. Les Illuminations, op. 18: Marine0:59
  7. Les Illuminations, op. 18: Interlude2:14
  8. Les Illuminations, op. 18: Being Beauteous3:56
  9. Les Illuminations, op. 18: Parade2:39
  10. Les Illuminations, op. 18: Départ2:37
  11. Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Prologue1:20
  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: Epilogue1:30
  19. Now sleeps the crimson petal3:04
  20. Nocturne, op. 60: On a poet's lips I slept3:30
  21. Nocturne, op. 60: Below the thunders of the upper deep3:29
  22. Nocturne, op. 60: Encinctured with a twine of leaves2:13
  23. Nocturne, op. 60: Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting2:24
  24. Nocturne, op. 60: But that night when on my bed I lay3:03
  25. Nocturne, op. 60: She sleeps on soft, last breaths4:38
  26. Nocturne, op. 60: What is more gentle than a wind in summer3:01
  27. Nocturne, op. 60: When most I wink, then do my eyes best see5:08

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 : Prologue2:00
  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 March6:18
  10. Folksong arrangements : Little Sir William2:32
  11. Folksong arrangements : Come ye not from Newcastle?1:25
  12. Folksong arrangements : Bonny Earl Moray2:37
  13. Folksong arrangements : Oliver Cromwell0:48
  14. Phaedra Op.93 : In May, in brilliant Athens6:32
  15. Phaedra Op.93 : O Gods of wrath3:14
  16. Phaedra Op.93 : My time's too short, your highness6:18
  17. Five French folksong arrangements : La belle est au jardin d'amour2:52
  18. Five French folksong arrangements : Eho! Eho!2:00
  19. Five French folksong arrangements : Fileuse1:56
  20. Five French folksong arrangements : Quand j'etais chez mon père2:00
  21. Five French folksong arrangements : Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse2:51

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 soule3:19
  9. Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 2. Batter my heart1:13
  10. Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 3. O might those sighes and teares3:04
  11. Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 4. Oh, to vex me1:04
  12. Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 5. What if this present2:57
  13. Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 6. Since she whom I loved3:48
  14. Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 7. At the round earth's imagined corners2:47
  15. Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 8. Thou hast made me1:24
  16. Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 9. Death, be not proud4:15
  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 fast1:58
  19. On This Island Op.11 : 3. Seascape1:58
  20. On This Island Op.11 : 4. Nocturne3:59
  21. On This Island Op.11 : 5. As it is; plenty1:29
  22. Winter Words Op.52 : 1. At day-close in November1:34
  23. Winter Words Op.52 : 2. Midnight on the Great Western4:45
  24. Winter Words Op.52 : 3. Wagtail and Baby1:53
  25. Winter Words Op.52 : 4. The Little Old Table1:21
  26. Winter Words Op.52 : 5. The Choirmaster's Burial3:57
  27. Winter Words Op.52 : 6. Proud Songsters1:07
  28. Winter Words Op.52 : At the Railway Station, Upway3:06
  29. Winter Words Op.52 : Before Life and After3:03

CD 4

  1. Canticle 1: My Beloved is Mine, op.407:53
  2. Canticle 2: Abraham and Isaac, op.5117:04
  3. Canticle 3: Still Falls the Rain, op.5511:42
  4. Canticle 4: Journey of the Magi, op.8612:16
  5. Canticle 5: The Death of Saint Narcissus, op.897:49
  6. The Plough Boy1:50
  7. The Salley Gardens2:41
  8. The foggy, foggy dew2:40
  9. There's none to soothe1:48
  10. O Waly, Waly3:54
  11. The Ash Grove3:00
  12. Greensleeves2:17

CD 5

  1. Two Songs by Thomas Hardy : 1. The Childrfen and Sir Nameless2:51
  2. Two Songs by Thomas Hardy : 2. If it's ever spring again3:06
  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 back2:32
  8. Two songs by W.H. Auden : Night covers up the rigid land2:44
  9. The Oxen3:10
  10. Three rhymes by William Soutar : Dawlie's Devotion0:48
  11. Three rhymes by William Soutar : Tradition0:56
  12. Three rhymes by William Soutar : The Gully0:56
  13. Tit for Tat : 1. A Song Echantment2:29
  14. Tit for Tat : 3. Silver1:53
  15. Tit for Tat : 5. Tit for Tat2:18
  16. Two Ballads for voices and piano : 1. Mother Comfort3:41
  17. Two Ballads for voices and piano : 2. Underneath the Abject Willow2:10
  18. Folksong arrangements : Sweet Polly Oliver1:55
  19. Folksong arrangements : The Minstrel Boy2:28
  20. Folksong arrangements : The Brisk Young Widow2:14
  21. Folksong arrangements : Ca' the Yowes3:53
  22. Folksong arrangements : The Lincolnshire Poacher1:58
  23. Folksong arrangements : O can ye sew cushions?2:23
  24. Folksong arrangements : The trees they grow so high3:17
  25. Folk songs : Early one morning3:31
  26. Folk songs : How sweet the answer2:12
  27. Folk songs : Voici le printemps2:00
  28. Folk songs : The last rose of Summer4:31
  29. Folk songs : Dear Harp of my Country!2:32
  30. Folk songs : Oft in the stilly night2:48

CD 6

  1. Realisations of music by Henry Purcell : The Queen's Epicedium7:54
  2. from Orpheus Britannicus : Sound the Trumpet2:27
  3. from Orpheus Britannicus : I attempt from love's sickness to fly2:46
  4. from Orpheus Britannicus : Lost is my quiet for ever3:20
  5. from Orpheus Britannicus : Fairest Isle2:10
  6. from Orpheus Britannicus : What can we poor females do?1:18
  7. from Orpheus Britannicus : I'll sail upon the Dog-star1:15
  8. from Orpheus Britannicus : The Knotting Song3:02
  9. from Orpheus Britannicus : Man is for the woman made1:07
  10. Suite of Songs : 1. Let sullen discord smile2:06
  11. Suite of Songs : 2. Why should men quarrel?1:31
  12. Suite of Songs : 3. So when the glittering Queen of Night4:07
  13. Suite of Songs : 4. Thou tun'st this world2:10
  14. Suite of Songs : 5a. 'Tis holiday , 5b. Sound Fame thy brazen trumpet2:47
  15. Schubert Die Forelle D5502:00
  16. Schumann: Frühlingsnacht (No.12 from Liederkreis Op.39)1:13