BENJAMIN BRITTEN (PT. 5)

THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION (2008)
PART 5
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Disc 22
1-10) Les Illuminations Op.18
I. Fanfare
II. Villes
IIIa. Phrase
IIIb. Antique
IV. Royauté
V. Marine
VI. Interlude
VII. Being Beauteous
VIII. Parade
IX. Départ
11-18) Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op.31
Prologue
1. Pastoral (Cotton)
2. Nocturne (Tennyson)
3. Elegy (Blake)
4. Dirge (Anon)
5. Hymn (Jonson)
6. Sonnet (Keats)
Epilogue
19) Now sleeps the crimson petal (Tennyson)
20-27) Nocturne Op.60
On a poet's lips I slept
Below the thunders of the upper deep
Encinctured with a twine of leaves
Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting
But that's the night that on my bed I lay
She sleeps on soft, last breaths
What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
When most I wink, then do my eyes best see

Disc 23
1-4) Quatre Chansons Françaises
1. Les nuits de juin (Victor Hugo)
2. Sagesse (Paul Verlaine)
3. L'enfance (Victor Hugo)
4. Chanson d'automne (Paul Verlaine)
5-9) Our Hunting Fathers Op.8
Prologue
A. Rats Away!
B. Messalina
C. Dance of Death
Epilogue and Funeral March
10-13) Folksong arrangements
Little Sir William
Come ye not from Newcastle?
Bonny Earl Moray
Oliver Cromwell
14-16) Phaedra Op.93
In may, in brilliant Athens
O Gods of wrath
My time's too short, your highness
17-21) Five French Folksong arrangements
La belle est au jardin d'amour
Eho! Eho!
Fileuse
Quand j'étais chez mon père
Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse

Disc 24
1-7) Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22
1. Si come nella penna
2. A che più debb'io mai
3. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi
4. Tu sa' ch'io so
5. Rendete a gli occhi miei
6. S'un casto amor
7. Spirito ben nato
8-16) Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35
1. Oh my blacke soule
2. Batter my heart
3. O might those sighes and teares
4. Oh, to vex me
5. What if this present
6. Since she whom I loved
7. At the round earth's imagined corners
8. Thou hast made me
9. Death, be not proud
17-21) On This Island Op.11
1. Let the florid music praise!
2. Now the leaves are falling fast
3. Seascape
4. Nocturne
5. As it is; plenty
22-29) Winter Words Op.52
1. At day-close in November
2. Midnight on the great Western (or the Journeying Boy)
3. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
4. The Little Old Table
5. The Choirmaster's Burial (or The Tenor Man's Story)
6. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
7. At the Railway Station, Upway (for the Convict and Boy with the Violin)
8. Before Life and After

Disc 25
1-5) The Five Canticles
I. My Beloved is Mine and I am his
II. Abraham and Isaac
III. Still Falls the Rain
IV. Journey of the Magi
V. The Death of Saint Narcissus
6-12) Folksong arrangements
The Ploughboy
The Salley Gardens
The Foggy, foggy dew
There's none to soothe
O Waly, Waly
The Ash Grove
Greensleeves

Disc 26
1-2) Two songs by Thomas Hardy
The Children and Sir Nameless
If it's ever spring again
3-5) Beware! – Three Early Songs
1. Beware!
2. O that I had ne'er been married
3. Epitath; the clerk
6) Not even summer yet
7-8) Two songs by W.H. Auden
To lie flat on the back
Night covers up the rigid land
9) The Oxen
10-12) Three rhymes by William Soutar
Dawlie's Devotion
Tradition
The Gully
13-15) Tit for Tat
1. A Song of Enchantment
2. Silver
3. Tit for Tat
16-17) Two Ballads for two voices and piano
1. Mother Comfort
2. Underneath and Abject Willow
18-24) Folksong arrangements
(continued)
Sweet Polly Oliver
The Ministrel Boy
The Brisk Yound Widow
Ca' the Yowes
The Lincolnshire Poacher
O can ye sew cushions?
The trees that grow so high
25-30) Folksong arrangements
Early one morning
How sweet the answer
Voici le printemps
The last rose of Summer
Dear Harp of my Country!
Oft. in the stilly night