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Robert Tear/Heather Harper

Britten: Serenade, Nocturne, Les Illuminations

Robert Tear/Heather Harper

26 SONGS • 1 HOUR AND 14 MINUTES • FEB 06 2006

1
Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): I. Fanfare
02:05
2
Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): II. Villes
02:30
3
Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): IIIa. Phrase
01:07
4
Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): IIIb. Antique
02:05
5
Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): IV. Royauté
01:40
6
Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): V. Marine
00:59
7
Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): VI. Interlude
02:14
8
Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): VII. Being Beauteous
03:56
9
Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): VIII. Parade
02:39
10
Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): IX. Départ
02:29
11
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): Prologue (horn solo)
01:24
12
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 1. Pastoral: The day's grown old (Charles Cotton)
03:44
13
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 2. Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
03:28
14
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 3. Elegy: O Rose, thou art sick (William Blake)
04:30
15
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 4. Dirge: This ae nighte (anon. 15th century)
03:25
16
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 5. Hymn: Queen and huntress (Ben Jonson)
02:02
17
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 6. Sonnet: O soft embalmer of the still midnight (John Keats) [horn tacet]
04:45
18
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): Epilogue (horn solo)
01:33
19
Nocturne, Op.60: On a poet's lips I slept (Shelley)
03:29
20
Nocturne, Op.60: Below the thunders of the upper deep (Tennyson) (Robin O'Neill, bassoon)
03:29
21
Nocturne, Op.60: Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Coleridge) (Thelma Owen, harp)
02:13
22
Nocturne, Op.60: Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting (Middleton) (Frank Lloyd, french horn)
02:24
23
Nocturne, Op.60: But that night when on my bed I lay (Wordsworth) (David Corkhill, timpani)
03:03
24
Nocturne, Op.60: She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Owen) (James Brown, cor anglais)
04:38
25
Nocturne, Op.60: What is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Keats) (William Bennett, flute; Thea King, clarinet)
03:01
26
Nocturne, Op.60: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Shakespeare)
05:09
℗ This compilation 2006 by EMI Records Ltd © EMI Records Ltd, 2006