The Complete Orchestral Song-Cycles

Album by Benjamin Britten & Philip Langridge & Felicity Lott & Ann Murray & Phyllis Bryn‐Julson & Frank Lloyd & English Chamber Orchestra & Royal Northern Sinfonia & Steuart Bedford

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): Nuits de Juin
    2:55
  2. 2.
    Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): Sagesse
    2:42
  3. 3.
    Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): L'Enfance
    3:55
  4. 4.
    Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): Chanson d'Automne
    2:42
  5. 5.
    Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Prologue
    2:22
  6. 6.
    Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Rats Away!
    4:24
  7. 7.
    Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Messalina
    7:27
  8. 8.
    Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge)
    6:04
  9. 9.
    Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Epilogue and Funeral March
    7:49
  10. 10.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): I Fanfare
    1:57
  11. 11.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): II Villes
    2:32
  12. 12.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IIIa Phrase
    1:06
  13. 13.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IIIb Antique
    2:01
  14. 14.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IV Royauté
    1:38
  15. 15.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): V Marine
    0:59
  16. 16.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): VI Interlude
    2:26
  17. 17.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): VII Being Beauteous
    3:51
  18. 18.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): VIII Parade
    2:44
  19. 19.
    Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IX Départ
    2:56

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Prologue
    1:22
  2. 3.
    Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Pastoral
    3:13
  3. 4.
    Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Nocturne
    3:35
  4. 5.
    Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Elegy
    4:08
  5. 6.
    Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Dirge
    3:21
  6. 7.
    Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Hymn
    2:00
  7. 8.
    Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Sonnet
    3:43
  8. 9.
    Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Epilogue (Off Stage)
    1:38
  9. 10.
    Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): On a poet's lips I slept...
    3:09
  10. 11.
    Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): Below the thunders of the upper deep...
    2:56
  11. 12.
    Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): Encinctured with a twine of leaves...
    2:48
  12. 13.
    Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting...
    2:30
  13. 14.
    Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): But that night when on my bed I lay...
    2:56
  14. 15.
    Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): She sleeps on soft, last breaths, but no ghost looms...
    4:08
  15. 16.
    Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): What is more gentle than a wind in summer...
    3:41
  16. 17.
    Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see...
    4:23
  17. 18.
    Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Prologue 'In May, in brilliant Athens...'
    1:23
  18. 19.
    Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): My lost and dazzled eyes...
    1:01
  19. 20.
    Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Venus resigned her altar to my new Lord...
    0:42
  20. 21.
    Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Phaedra in all her nadness stands before you
    1:41
  21. 22.
    Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): The wife of Theseus loves Hippolytus...
    1:27
  22. 23.
    Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Oh Gods of wrath...
    2:26
  23. 24.
    Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Death to the unhappy no catastrophe...
    1:45
  24. 25.
    Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): My time's too short, your highness...
    1:41
  25. 26.
    Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Chills already dart along my boiling veins...
    2:40

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