Serenade / Les Illuminations / Nocturne

Release by Benjamin Britten; Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten

Track list

CD 1

=> 1 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Prologue (1:25)
=> 2 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Pastoral “The day’s grown old” (3:37)
=> 3 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Nocturne “The splendour falls on castle walls” (3:23)
=> 4 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Elegy “O Rose, thou art sick” (4:06)
=> 5 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Dirge “This ae nighte” (3:46)
=> 6 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Hymn “Queen and huntress, chaste and fair” (2:03)
=> 7 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Sonnet “O soft embalmer of the still midnight” (4:09)
=> 8 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Epilogue (1:36)
=> 9 Les Illuminations, op. 18: I. Fanfare (1:51)
=> 10 Les Illuminations, op. 18: II. Villes (2:32)
=> 11 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IIIa. Phrase (0:57)
=> 12 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IIIb. Antique (2:10)
=> 13 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IV. Royauté (1:37)
=> 14 Les Illuminations, op. 18: V. Marine (1:02)
=> 15 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VI. Interlude (2:21)
=> 16 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VII. Being beauteous (4:04)
=> 17 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VIII. Parade (2:48)
=> 18 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IX. Départ (2:45)
=> 19 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “On a poet’s lips I slept” (3:22)
=> 20 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “Below the thunders of the upper deep” (3:18)
=> 21 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “Encintured with a twine of leaves” (2:12)
=> 22 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “Midnight’s bell goes ting, ting, ting” (2:30)
=> 23 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “But that night when on my bed I lay” (3:02)
=> 24 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “She sleeps on soft, last breaths” (4:30)
=> 25 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “What is more gentle than a wind in summer?” (3:27)
=> 26 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see” (4:01)

Labels

=> Decca Classics (“DECCA” in white uppercase on a blue-over-red rectangular block; until 1999, for use outside of North America only)

417 153-2DH

Release events

1986 United Kingdom

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