Benjamin Britten: Song Cycles

The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Helen Watts & Benjamin Britten

2021-08-07 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: I. Prologue
  1:55
• 2
  Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: II. Rats away!
  4:26
• 3
  Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: III. Messalina
  6:34
• 4
  Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: IV. Hawing for the partridge (Dance of Death)
  5:59
• 5
  Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: V. Epilogue
  6:47
• 6
  On This Island, Op. 11: I. Let the florid music praise!
  3:54
• 7
  On This Island, Op. 11: II. Now the leaves are falling fast
  2:03
• 8
  On This Island, Op. 11: III. Seascape (‘For Kit Welford’)
  2:11
• 9
  On This Island, Op. 11: IV. Nocturne
  4:05
• 10
  On This Island, Op. 11: V. As it is plenty
  1:40
• 11
  A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: I. A Cradle Song
  2:17
• 12
  A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: II. A Highland Balou
  1:46
• 13
  A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: III. Sephestia's Lullaby
  2:05
• 14
  A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: IV. A Charm
  1:34
• 15
  A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: V. The Nurse's Song
  3:43
• 16
  Winter Words, Op. 52: I. At Day-Close in November
  1:44
• 17
  Winter Words, Op. 52: II. Midnight on the Great Western (or, The Journeying Boy)
  4:37
• 18
  Winter Words, Op. 52: III. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
  2:04
• 19
  Winter Words, Op. 52: IV. The Little Old Table
  1:30
• 20
  Winter Words, Op. 52: V. The Choirmaster's Burial (or, The Tenor Man's Story)
  3:52
• 21
  Winter Words, Op. 52: VI. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
  1:13
• 22
  Winter Words, Op. 52: VII. At the Railway Station, Upway (or, The Convict and Boy with the Violin)
  2:47
• 23
  Winter Words, Op. 52: VIII. Before Life and After
  3:22