Les Illuminations / Serenade / Nocturne

Album by Benjamin Britten & Andrew Staples & Christopher Parkes & Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester & Daniel Harding

First released: 19th August 2022

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: I. Fanfare
    2:04
  2. 2.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: II. Villes
    2:28
  3. 3.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: III a. Phrase
    1:05
  4. 4.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: III b. Antique
    2:15
  5. 5.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: IV. Royauté
    1:32
  6. 6.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: V. Marine
    0:58
  7. 7.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: VI. Interlude
    2:49
  8. 8.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: VII. Being Beauteous
    4:05
  9. 9.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: VIII. Parade
    2:43
  10. 10.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18: IX. Départ
    2:47
  11. 11.
    Serenade, op. 31: I. Prologue
    1:22
  12. 12.
    Serenade, op. 31: II. Pastoral
    3:05
  13. 13.
    Serenade, op. 31: III. Nocturne
    3:38
  14. 14.
    Serenade, op. 31: IV. Elegy
    4:25
  15. 15.
    Serenade, op. 31: V. Dirge
    3:21
  16. 16.
    Serenade, op. 31: VI. Hymn
    2:03
  17. 17.
    Serenade, op. 31: VII. Sonnet
    4:01
  18. 18.
    Serenade, op. 31: VIII. Epilogue
    1:30
  19. 19.
    Nocturne, op. 60: “On a poet’s lips I slept”
    3:10
  20. 20.
    Nocturne, op. 60: “Below the thunders of the upper deep”
    3:24
  21. 21.
    Nocturne, op. 60: “Encinctured with a twine of leaves”
    2:40
  22. 22.
    Nocturne, op. 60: “Midnight’s bell goes ting, ting, ting”
    2:24
  23. 23.
    Nocturne, op. 60: “But that night when on my bed I lay”
    3:00
  24. 24.
    Nocturne, op. 60: “She sleeps on soft, last breaths”
    4:28
  25. 25.
    Nocturne, op. 60: “What is more gentle than a wind in summer?”
    3:57
  26. 26.
    Nocturne, op. 60: “When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see”
    4:39

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