War Requiem / Spring Symphony / Five Flower Songs / Hymn to St. Cecilia

Album by Benjamin Britten & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part I: Introduction: "Shine out, fair sun" (Chorus)
    8:38
  2. 2.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part I: The Merry Cuckoo (Tenor)
    1:55
  3. 3.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part I: Spring, the Sweet Spring (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Chorus)
    1:41
  4. 4.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part I: The Driving Boy (Children's Chorus)
    1:50
  5. 5.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part I: The Morning Star (Chorus)
    2:59
  6. 6.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part II: Welcome Maids of Honour (Contralto)
    2:35
  7. 7.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part II: Waters Above! (Tenor)
    2:27
  8. 8.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part II: Out on the Lawn I Lie in Bed (Alto, Chorus)
    5:50
  9. 9.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part III: When Will My May Come (Tenor)
    2:25
  10. 10.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part III: Fair and Fair (Soprano, Tenor)
    2:15
  11. 11.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part III: Sound the Flute! (Chorus, Children's Chorus)
    1:21
  12. 12.
    Spring Symphony, op. 44, Part IV: Finale: "London, to Thee I Do Present" (Tenor, Contralto, Soprano, Chorus, Children's Chorus)
    7:41
  13. 13.
    Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27: I. In a garden shady
    2:30
  14. 14.
    Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27: II. I cannot grow
    1:55
  15. 15.
    Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27: II. O ear whose creatures
    5:24
  16. 16.
    Five Flower Songs op. 47: 1. To Daffodils
    1:55
  17. 17.
    Five Flower Songs op. 47: 2. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months
    1:49
  18. 18.
    Five Flower Songs op. 47: 3. Marsh Flowers
    2:15
  19. 19.
    Five Flower Songs op. 47: 4. The Evening Primrose
    2:42
  20. 20.
    Five Flower Songs op. 47: 5. Ballad of Green Broom
    2:01
  21. 21.
    War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: Requiem aeternam (Chorus)
    5:27
  22. 22.
    War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: "What passing bells for these who die as cattle?" (Tenor)
    3:53

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies Irae: Dies irae, dies illa (Chorus)
    3:57
  2. 3.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies Irae: "Bugles sang, saddening the evening air" (Baritone)
    2:39
  3. 4.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies Irae: Liber scriptus proferetur (Soprano, Chorus)
    2:52
  4. 5.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies Irae: "Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death" (Tenor, Baritone)
    1:44
  5. 6.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies Irae: Recordare Jesu pie (Chorus)
    4:34
  6. 7.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies Irae: "Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm" (Baritone)
    1:46
  7. 8.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies Irae: Dies irae, dies illa (Chorus)
    1:23
  8. 9.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies Irae: Lacrimosa dies illa (Soprano, Chorus)
    2:06
  9. 10.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies Irae: "Move him into the sun" / Lacrimosa (Tenor/Soprano, Chorus)
    5:51
  10. 11.
    War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe (Boys' Choir)
    3:51
  11. 12.
    War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium: "So Abram rose, and clave the wood" / Hostias (Baritone, Tenor/Boys' Choir)
    6:02
  12. 13.
    War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth (Soprano, Chorus)
    6:33
  13. 14.
    War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus: "After the blast of lightning from the East" (Baritone)
    4:10
  14. 15.
    War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus Dei: "One ever hangs where shelled roads part" / Agnus Dei (Tenor / Chorus)
    3:42
  15. 16.
    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: Libera me, Domine (Chorus, Soprano)
    7:19
  16. 17.
    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: "It seemed that out of battle I escaped" (Tenor, Baritone)
    9:23
  17. 18.
    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: "Let us sleep now" / In paradisum (Baritone, Tenor/Boys' Choir, Chorus, Soprano)
    5:58

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