Benjamin Britten

Vocal Works

Release date August 04, 2013

Tracklist

1
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, op. 18: 1. Fanfare
2:05
2:05
2
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, op. 18: 2. Villes
2:30
2:30
3
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, op. 18: 3a. Phrase
1:07
1:07
4
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, op. 18: 3b. Antique
2:04
2:04
5
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, op. 18: 4. Royauté
1:40
1:40
6
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, op. 18: 5. Marine
0:59
0:59
7
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, op. 18: 6. Interlude
2:14
2:14
8
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, op. 18: 7. Being Beauteous
3:56
3:56
9
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, op. 18: 8. Parade
2:39
2:39
10
Les illuminations, song cycle for high voice & strings, op. 18: 9. Départ
2:37
2:37
11
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Op 31: 01 Prologue
1:20
1:20
12
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Op 31: 02 Pastoral (Cotton)
3:26
3:26
13
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Op 31: 03 Nocturne (Tennyson)
3:29
3:29
14
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Op 31: 04 Elegy (Blake)
4:10
4:10
15
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Op 31: 05 Dirge (Anon)
3:37
3:37
16
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Op 31: 06 Hymn (Jonson)
2:03
2:03
17
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Op 31: 07 Sonnet (Keats)
3:43
3:43
18
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Op 31: 08 Epilogue
1:30
1:30
19
Now sleeps the crimson petal (Tennyson)
3:04
3:04
20
Nocturne, for tenor, 7 instruments & strings, Op. 60: On a poet's lips I slept
3:30
3:30
21
Nocturne, for tenor, 7 instruments & strings, Op. 60: Below the thunders of the upper deep
3:29
3:29
22
Nocturne, for tenor, 7 instruments & strings, Op. 60: Encinctured with a twine of leaves
2:13
2:13
23
Nocturne, for tenor, 7 instruments & strings, Op. 60: Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting
2:24
2:24
24
Nocturne, for tenor, 7 instruments & strings, Op. 60: But that night when on my bed I lay
3:03
3:03
25
Nocturne, for tenor, 7 instruments & strings, Op. 60: She sleeps on soft, last breaths
4:38
4:38
26
Nocturne, for tenor, 7 instruments & strings, Op. 60: What is more gentle whan a wind in summer?
3:01
3:01
27
Nocturne, for tenor, 7 instruments & strings, Op. 60: When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
5:08
5:08
28
4 Chansons Françaises for Voice and Orchestra: I. Nuits de juin (Lento e molto rubato)
2:50
2:50
29
4 Chansons Françaises for Voice and Orchestra: I. Sagesse (Lento Ma Non Troppo)
2:49
2:49
30
4 Chansons Françaises for Voice and Orchestra: I. L'Enfance (Animato)
4:30
4:30
31
4 Chansons Françaises for Voice and Orchestra: I. Chanson d'automne (Moderato con molto ma sempre colla voce)
2:33
2:33
32
Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8: Prologue
2:00
2:00
33
Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8: A. Rats Away!
4:40
4:40
34
Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8: B. Messalina
6:55
6:55
35
Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8: C. Dance of Death
6:29
6:29
36
Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8: Epilogue and Funeral March
6:18
6:18
37
Folksong Arrangements: Little Sir William
2:32
2:32
38
Folksong Arrangements: Come you not from Newcastle?
1:25
1:25
39
Folksong Arrangements: The Bonny Earl o' Moray
2:37
2:37
40
Folksong Arrangements: Oliver Cromwell
0:48
0:48
41
Phaedra, dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano, string orchestra, percussion & harpsichord, Op. 93: In May, in brilliant Athens
6:32
6:32
42
Phaedra, dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano, string orchestra, percussion & harpsichord, Op. 93: O Gods of wrath
3:14
3:14
43
Phaedra, dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano, string orchestra, percussion & harpsichord, Op. 93: My time's too short, your highness
6:18
6:18
44
La belle est au jardin d'amour, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 2)
2:52
2:52
45
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. II "France", for voice & piano: Eho! Eho!
2:00
2:00
46
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. II "France", for voice & piano: Fileuse, folksong for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 2)
1:56
1:56
47
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. II "France", for voice & piano: Quand j'étais chez mon père, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 2)
2:00
2:00
48
Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 2) Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse
2:51
2:51
49
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22: 1. Sì come nella penna
2:03
2:03
50
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22: 2. A che più debb'io mai
1:20
1:20
51
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22: 3. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi
3:10
3:10
52
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22: 4. Tu sa' ch'io so
1:46
1:46
53
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22: 5. Rendete a gli occhi miei
1:50
1:50
54
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22: 6. S'un casto amor
1:15
1:15
55
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22: 7. Spirto ben nato
4:51
4:51
56
Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: 1. Oh My Blacke Soule
3:19
3:19
57
Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: 2. Batter My Heart
1:13
1:13
58
Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: 3. O Might Those Sighes and Teares
3:04
3:04
59
Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: 4. Oh, to Vex Me
1:04
1:04
60
Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: 5. What If This Present
2:57
2:57
61
Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: 6. Since She Whom I Loved
3:48
3:48
62
Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: 7. At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners
2:47
2:47
63
Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: 8. Thou Hast Made Me
1:24
1:24
64
Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: 9. Death, Be Not Proud
4:15
4:15
65
On This Island, Op. 11: 1. Let the florid music praise!
3:08
3:08
66
On This Island, Op. 11: 2. Now the leaves are falling fast
1:58
1:58
67
On This Island, Op. 11: 3. Seascape
1:58
1:58
68
On This Island, Op. 11: 4. Nocturne
3:59
3:59
69
On This Island, Op. 11: 5. As it is, plenty
1:29
1:29
70
Winter Words, Op. 52: 1. At Day-close in November
1:34
1:34
71
Winter Words, Op. 52: 2. Midnight on the Great Western (or the Journeying Boy)
4:45
4:45
72
Winter Words, Op. 52: 3. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
1:53
1:53
73
Winter Words, Op. 52: 4. The Little Old Table
1:21
1:21
74
Winter Words, Op. 52: 5. The Choirmaster's Burial (or The Tenor Man's Story)
3:57
3:57
75
Winter Words, Op. 52: 6. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
1:07
1:07
76
Winter Words, Op. 52: 7. At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin)
3:06
3:06
77
Winter Words, Op. 52: 8. Before Life and After
3:03
3:03
78
Canticle I: My Beloved is Mine, op. 40
7:53
7:53
79
Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, op. 51
17:04
17:04
80
Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain, op. 55
11:42
11:42
81
Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi, op. 86
12:16
12:16
82
Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus, op. 89
7:49
7:49
83
The Plough Boy
1:50
1:50
84
The Salley Gardens
2:41
2:41
85
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
2:40
2:40
86
There's None to Soothe
1:48
1:48
87
O Waly, Waly
3:54
3:54
88
The Ash Grove
3:00
3:00
89
Greensleeves
2:17
2:17
90
Songs (2) by Thomas Hardy, for voice & piano: The Children and Sir Nameless
2:51
2:51
91
Songs (2) by Thomas Hardy, for voice & piano: If it's ever spring again
3:06
3:06
92
Beware!, early songs (3) for medium voice & piano: 1. Beware!
1:02
1:02
93
Beware!, early songs (3) for medium voice & piano: 2. O that I had ne'er been married
1:23
1:23
94
Beware!, early songs (3) for medium voice & piano: 3. Epitaph: The Clerk
0:52
0:52
95
Not even summer yet, song for high voice & piano
2:05
2:05
96
Songs (2) by W. H. Auden, for voice & piano: To lie flat on the back
2:32
2:32
97
Songs (2) by W. H. Auden, for voice & piano: Night covers up the rigid land
2:44
2:44
98
The Oxen, carol for female chorus & piano
3:10
3:10
99
Dawtie's Devotion, song for voice & piano (discarded from "Who are these Children," Op. 84)
0:48
0:48
100
Tradition, song for voice & piano (discarded from "Who are these Children," Op. 84)
0:56
0:56
101
The Gully, song for voice & piano (discarded from "Who are these Children," Op. 84)
0:56
0:56
102
Tit for Tat, song cycle for voice & piano: 1. A Song of Enchantment
2:29
2:29
103
Tit for Tat, song cycle for voice & piano: 3. Silver
1:53
1:53
104
Tit for Tat, song cycle for voice & piano: 5. Tit for Tat
2:18
2:18
105
Ballads (2), for 2 voices & piano: 1. Mother Comfort
3:41
3:41
106
Ballads (2), for 2 voices & piano: 2. Underneath the Abject Willow
2:10
2:10
107
Folk Song Arrangements: Sweet Polly Oliver
1:55
1:55
108
Folk Song Arrangements: The Minstrel Boy
2:28
2:28
109
Folk Song Arrangements: The Brisk Young Widow
2:14
2:14
110
Folk Song Arrangements: Ca' the Yowes
3:53
3:53
111
Folk Song Arrangements: The Lincolnshire Poacher
1:58
1:58
112
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. I "British Isles", for voice & piano: O can ye sew cushions?
2:23
2:23
113
Folk Song Arrangements: The trees they grow so high
3:17
3:17
114
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. V "British Isles", for voice & piano Early one morning
3:31
3:31
115
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. IV "Moore's Irish Melodies", for voice & piano How sweet the answer
2:12
2:12
116
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. II "France", for voice & piano Voici le printemps
2:00
2:00
117
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. IV "Moore's Irish Melodies", for voice & piano: The last rose of Summer
4:31
4:31
118
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. IV "Moore's Irish Melodies", for voice & piano: Dear Harp of my Country!
2:32
2:32
119
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. IV "Moore's Irish Melodies", for voice & piano: Oft in the stilly night
2:48
2:48
120
The Queen's Epicedium, for soprano or tenor & piano (Purcell Realization)
7:54
7:54
121
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Sound the Trumpet
2:27
2:27
122
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Songs (5), for voice & piano: I attempt from love's sickness to fly
2:46
2:46
123
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Duets (6), for 2 voices & piano: Lost is my quiet for ever
3:20
3:20
124
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Songs (7), for voice & piano: Fairest Isle
2:10
2:10
125
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Duets (6), for 2 voices & piano: What can we poor females do?
1:18
1:18
126
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Songs (7), for voice & piano: I'll sail upon the Dog-star
1:15
1:15
127
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Songs (7), for voice & piano: Hears not my Phyllis (The Knotting Song), song, Z. 371
3:02
3:02
128
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Duets (6), for 2 voices & piano: Man is for the woman made
1:07
1:07
129
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Songs (5), for voice & piano: 1. Let sullen discord smile
2:06
2:06
130
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Songs (5), for voice & piano: 2. Why should men quarrel
1:31
1:31
131
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Songs (5), for voice & piano: 3. So when the glittering Queen of Night
4:07
4:07
132
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Songs (5), for voice & piano: 4. Thou tun'st this world
2:10
2:10
133
Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus: Songs (5), for voice & piano: 5a. 'tis holiday / 5b. Sound Fame thy brazen trumpet
2:47
2:47
134
Die Forelle ("In einem Bächlein helle"), song for voice & piano, D. 550 (Op. 32)
2:00
2:00
135
Frühlingsnacht ("Uberm Garten durch die Lüfte"), song for voice & piano (Liederkreis), Op. 39/12
1:13
1:13