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Serenade / Les Illuminations / Nocturne Benjamin Britten; Peter Pears, Barry Tuckwell, London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra

Release: 03 May 1993 Europe, Language: English, Status: Official
Format: CD, Tracks: 26, Length: 1:12:46, Barcode: 028943639521
Release type: Other

Contents

CD #1
1 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Prologue 1:25
2 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Pastoral “The day’s grown old” 3:37
3 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Nocturne “The splendour falls on castle walls” 3:23
4 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Elegy “O Rose, thou art sick” 4:06
5 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Dirge “This ae nighte” 3:46
6 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Hymn “Queen and huntress, chaste and fair” 2:03
7 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Sonnet “O soft embalmer of the still midnight” 4:09
8 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Epilogue 1:36
9 Les Illuminations, op. 18: I. Fanfare 1:51
10 Les Illuminations, op. 18: II. Villes 2:32
11 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IIIa. Phrase 0:57
12 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IIIb. Antique 2:10
13 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IV. Royauté 1:37
14 Les Illuminations, op. 18: V. Marine 1:02
15 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VI. Interlude 2:21
16 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VII. Being beauteous 4:04
17 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VIII. Parade 2:48
18 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IX. Départ 2:45
19 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “On a poet’s lips I slept” 3:22
20 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “Below the thunders of the upper deep” 3:18
21 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “Encintured with a twine of leaves” 2:12
22 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “Midnight’s bell goes ting, ting, ting” 2:30
23 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “But that night when on my bed I lay” 3:02
24 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “She sleeps on soft, last breaths” 4:30
25 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “What is more gentle than a wind in summer?” 3:27
26 Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obligato Instruments & Strings, op. 60: “When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see” 4:01

Other Releases in Group (1)

Official

  1. Serenade / Les Illuminations / Nocturne, United Kingdom (1986), CD (English)

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  1. https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/cat/4363952

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/release/12914633