Serenade / Les Illuminations / Nocturne

Serenade / Les Illuminations / Nocturne

Benjamin Britten; Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten

Album
Label Decca Classics Release date Format CD Country 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Discogs https://www.discogs.com/release/5190437

Tracklist 72:46

1 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Prologue Benjamin Britten 1:25
2 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Pastoral “The day’s grown old” Benjamin Britten 3:37
3 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Nocturne “The splendour falls on castle walls” Benjamin Britten 3:23
4 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Elegy “O Rose, thou art sick” Benjamin Britten 4:06
5 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Dirge “This ae nighte” Benjamin Britten 3:46
6 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Hymn “Queen and huntress, chaste and fair” Benjamin Britten 2:03
7 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Sonnet “O soft embalmer of the still midnight” Benjamin Britten 4:09
8 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Epilogue Benjamin Britten 1:36
9 Les Illuminations, op. 18: I. Fanfare Benjamin Britten 1:51
10 Les Illuminations, op. 18: II. Villes Benjamin Britten 2:32
11 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IIIa. Phrase Benjamin Britten 0:57
12 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IIIb. Antique Benjamin Britten 2:10
13 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IV. Royauté Benjamin Britten 1:37
14 Les Illuminations, op. 18: V. Marine Benjamin Britten 1:02
15 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VI. Interlude Benjamin Britten 2:21
16 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VII. Being beauteous Benjamin Britten 4:04
17 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VIII. Parade Benjamin Britten 2:48
18 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IX. Départ Benjamin Britten 2:45
19 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “On a poet’s lips I slept” Benjamin Britten 3:22
20 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “Below the thunders of the upper deep” Benjamin Britten 3:18
21 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “Encintured with a twine of leaves” Benjamin Britten 2:12
22 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “Midnight’s bell goes ting, ting, ting” Benjamin Britten 2:30
23 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “But that night when on my bed I lay” Benjamin Britten 3:02
24 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “She sleeps on soft, last breaths” Benjamin Britten 4:30
25 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “What is more gentle than a wind in summer?” Benjamin Britten 3:27
26 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see” Benjamin Britten 4:01