Britten: Les Illuminations, Serenade, Nocturne, Noye's Fludde

City of London Sinfonia & Richard Hickox

2006-04-03 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Serenade Op. 31: Prologue (horn solo)
  1:32
• 2
  Serenade Op. 31: 1. Pastoral: The day's grown old (Charles Cotton)
  3:36
• 3
  Serenade Op. 31: 2. Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
  3:42
• 4
  Serenade Op. 31: 3. Elegy: O Rose, thou art sick (William Blake)
  4:48
• 5
  Serenade Op. 31: 4. Dirge: This ae nighte (anon. 15th century)
  3:41
• 6
  Serenade Op. 31: 5. Hymn: Queen and huntress (Ben Jonson)
  1:51
• 7
  Serenade Op. 31: 6. Sonnet: O soft embalmer of the still midnight (John Keats)
  4:02
• 8
  Serenade Op. 31: Epilogue (horn solo)
  1:41
• 9
  Nocturne Op. 60: On a poet's lips I slept (Shelley)
  3:34
• 10
  Nocturne Op. 60: Below the thunders of the upper deep (Tennyson)
  3:16
• 11
  Nocturne Op. 60: Encinctured with a twive of leaves (Coleridge)
  2:47
• 12
  Nocturne Op. 60: Midnight's bell goes ting (Middleton)
  2:51
• 13
  Nocturne Op. 60: When that night on my bed I lay (Wordsworth)
  3:19
• 14
  Nocturne Op. 60: She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Owen)
  4:07
• 15
  Nocturne Op. 60: WHat is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Keats)
  4:09
• 16
  Nocturne Op. 60: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Shakespeare)
  5:12
• 1
  Les Illuminations Op. 18: I. Fanfare
  2:03
• 2
  Les Illuminations Op. 18: II. Villes
  2:21
• 3
  Les Illuminations Op. 18: IIIa. Phrase
  1:04
• 4
  Les Illuminations Op. 18: IIIb. Antique
  2:09
• 5
  Les Illuminations Op. 18: IV. Royauté
  1:35
• 6
  Les Illuminations Op. 18: V. Marine
  0:58
• 7
  Les Illuminations Op. 18: VI. Interlude
  2:34
• 8
  Les Illuminations Op. 18: VII. Being Beauteous
  4:05
• 9
  Les Illuminations Op. 18: VIII. Parade
  2:52
• 10
  Les Illuminations Op. 18: IX. Départ
  2:49
• 11
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: Lord Jesus, think on me
  2:59
• 12
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: I, God, that all this world hath wroughte
  1:47
• 13
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: O, Lorde, I thanke thee lowde and still
  2:44
• 14
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: Now in the name of God I will begyne
  3:25
• 15
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: Wyffe, in this vessell we shall be kepte
  0:51
• 16
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: Noye, Noye, take thou thy company
  1:23
• 17
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: Sir! heare are lions, lepardes, in
  4:57
• 18
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: Wiffe, come in! why standes thou their?
  4:57
• 19
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: It is good for to be still
  3:36
• 20
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: Eternal Father, strong to save
  4:30
• 21
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: Now forty dayes are fullie gone
  5:13
• 22
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: Noye, take thy wife anone
  2:54
• 23
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: Noye, heare I behette thee a heste
  1:37
• 24
  Noye's Fludde, Op.59 The Chester Miricle Play set to music: The spacious firmament on high
  6:32