British Composers: Britten: Winter Words etc.

Album by Benjamin Britten & Robert Tear & Philip Ledger

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    On This Island, Op. 11: 1. Let the florid music praise!
    3:08
  2. 2.
    On This Island, Op. 11: 2. Now the leaves are falling fast
    1:58
  3. 3.
    On This Island, Op. 11: 3. Seascape
    1:58
  4. 4.
    On This Island, Op. 11: 4. Nocturne
    3:59
  5. 5.
    On This Island, Op. 11: 5. As it is, plenty
    1:31
  6. 6.
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Foggy, Foggy Dew
    2:24
  7. 7.
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Plough Boy
    1:44
  8. 8.
    Folk Song Arrangements: Sweet Polly Oliver
    1:53
  9. 9.
    Folk Song Arrangements: O Waly, Waly
    3:50
  10. 10.
    Folk Song Arrangements: Come you not from Newcastle?
    1:14
  11. 11.
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Minstrel Boy
    2:28
  12. 12.
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Brisk Young Widow
    2:14
  13. 13.
    Folk Song Arrangements: Ca' the Yowes
    3:53
  14. 14.
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Lincolnshire Poacher
    1:59
  15. 15.
    Folk Song Arrangements: Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse
    1:58
  16. 16.
    Folk Song Arrangements: La belle est au jardin d'amour
    2:27
  17. 17.
    Folk Song Arrangements: Quand j'étais chez mon père
    1:46
  18. 18.
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Salley Gardens
    2:29
  19. 19.
    Folk Song Arrangements: Little Sir William
    2:39
  20. 20.
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Bonny Earl o' Moray
    2:07
  21. 21.
    Folk Song Arrangements: O can ye sew cushions?
    2:23
  22. 22.
    Folk Song Arrangements: The trees they grow so high
    3:12
  23. 23.
    Folk Song Arrangements: The Ash Grove
    2:23
  24. 24.
    Folk Song Arrangements: Oliver Cromwell
    0:40

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 1. Sì come nella penna e nell'inchiostro (XVI)
    2:02
  2. 3.
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 2. A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia (XXXI)
    1:34
  3. 4.
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 3. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume (XXX)
    3:31
  4. 5.
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 4. Tu sa' ch'io so, signior mie, che tu sai (LV)
    1:48
  5. 6.
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 5. Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume (XXXVIII)
    1:44
  6. 7.
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 6. S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna (XXXII)
    1:13
  7. 8.
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: 7. Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede (XXIV)
    4:28
  8. 9.
    Canticle I: My beloved is mine, Op. 40
    7:48
  9. 10.
    Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, Op. 51
    15:36
  10. 11.
    Canticle III: Still falls the rain, Op. 55
    11:35
  11. 12.
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 1. At Day-close in November
    1:34
  12. 13.
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 2. Midnight on the Great Western (or the Journeying Boy)
    4:46
  13. 14.
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 3. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
    1:53
  14. 15.
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 4. The Little Old Table
    1:21
  15. 16.
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 5. The Choirmaster's Burial (or The Tenor Man's Story)
    3:57
  16. 17.
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 6. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
    1:07
  17. 18.
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 7. At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin)
    3:06
  18. 19.
    Winter Words, Op. 52: 8. Before Life and After
    3:03

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