Britten: Song Cycles

Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano), Dennis Brain (horn)

New Symphony Orchestra of London, Eugene Goossens

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Release date: 10th Nov 2014
Label: Heritage
Catalogue number: HTGCDM047
Length: 63 minutes
Genre:
- Songs

Contents and tracklist

Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22

Work length17:17

I. Sonetto XVI - Sì come nella penna e nell' inchiostro

Track length2:04

II. Sonetto XXXI - A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia

Track length1:28

III. Sonetto XXX - Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume

Track length3:25

IV. Sonetto LV - Tu sa' ch'io so, signor mie, che tu sai

Track length1:54

V. Sonetto XXXVIII - Rendete a gli occhi miei

Track length1:59

VI. Sonetto XXXII - S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna

Track length1:25

VII. Sonetto XXIV - Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede

Track length5:02

Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31

Work length24:56

I. Prologue

Track length1:27

II. Pastorale

Track length3:39

III. Nocturne

Track length3:29

IV. Elegy

Track length4:45

V. Dirge

Track length4:03

VI. Hymn

Track length2:03

VII. Sonnet

Track length3:57

VIII. Epilogue

Track length1:33

Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52

Work length21:07

I. At Day-Close in November

Track length1:44

II. Midnight on the Great Western 'The Journeying Boy'

Track length4:37

III. Wagtail and Baby 'A Satire'

Track length2:04

IV. The Little Old Table

Track length1:29

V. The Choirmaster's Burial 'The Tenor Man's Story'

Track length3:52

VI. Proud Songsters 'Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales'

Track length1:11

VII. At the Railway Station, Upway 'The Convict and the Boy with the Violin'

Track length2:46

VIII. Before Life and After

Track length3:24

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