Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings etc.

Ian Bostridge, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Daniel Harding, Ingo Metzmacher & Marie-Luise Neunecker

1999-09-14 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Serenade Op. 31: Prologue (horn solo)
  1:19
• 2
  Serenade Op. 31: 1. Pastoral: The day's grown old (Charles Cotton)
  3:14
• 3
  Serenade Op. 31: 2. Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
  3:49
• 4
  Serenade Op. 31: 3. Elegy: O Rose, thou art sick (William Blake)
  4:20
• 5
  Serenade Op. 31: 4. Dirge: This ae nighte (anon. 15th century)
  3:31
• 6
  Serenade Op. 31: 5. Hymn: Queen and huntress (Ben Jonson)
  1:55
• 7
  Serenade Op. 31: 6. Sonnet: O soft embalmer of the still midnight (John Keats)
  3:31
• 8
  Serenade Op. 31: Epilogue (horn solo)
  1:20
• 9
  English Folksong: O Waly, Waly (Folksong from Somerset) (arranged Britten)
  3:37
• 10
  Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 (text devised by W. H. Auden): Prologue (W. H. Auden)
  2:32
• 11
  Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 (text devised by W. H. Auden): A. Rats Away! (anon. modernised by W. H. Auden)
  4:37
• 12
  Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 (text devised by W. H. Auden): B. Messalina (anon. )
  8:38
• 13
  Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 (text devised by W. H. Auden): C. Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge) (T. Ravenscroft)
  6:35
• 14
  Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 (text devised by W. H. Auden): Epilogue and Funeral March (W. H. Auden)
  7:50
• 15
  English Folksong: Oliver Cromwell (Nursery Rhyme from Suffolk) (arr. Britten)
  0:44