Benjamin Britten: Song Cycles

Album by Helen Watts.

Release date: 2021-08-07

Tracks (23)

  1. Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: I. Prologue
  2. Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: II. Rats away!
  3. Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: III. Messalina
  4. Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: IV. Hawing for the partridge (Dance of Death)
  5. Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: V. Epilogue
  6. On This Island, Op. 11: I. Let the florid music praise!
  7. On This Island, Op. 11: II. Now the leaves are falling fast
  8. On This Island, Op. 11: III. Seascape (‘For Kit Welford’)
  9. On This Island, Op. 11: IV. Nocturne
  10. On This Island, Op. 11: V. As it is plenty
  11. A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: I. A Cradle Song
  12. A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: II. A Highland Balou
  13. A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: III. Sephestia's Lullaby
  14. A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: IV. A Charm
  15. A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41: V. The Nurse's Song
  16. Winter Words, Op. 52: I. At Day-Close in November
  17. Winter Words, Op. 52: II. Midnight on the Great Western (or, The Journeying Boy)
  18. Winter Words, Op. 52: III. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
  19. Winter Words, Op. 52: IV. The Little Old Table
  20. Winter Words, Op. 52: V. The Choirmaster's Burial (or, The Tenor Man's Story)
  21. Winter Words, Op. 52: VI. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
  22. Winter Words, Op. 52: VII. At the Railway Station, Upway (or, The Convict and Boy with the Violin)
  23. Winter Words, Op. 52: VIII. Before Life and After

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