Benjamin Britten

Serenade / Les Illuminations / Nocturne

Featuring
Release date 1986

Tracklist

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