 
Britten Song Cycles
RRC1365
COMPILATION
Playing time: 63'32"
Tracks: 23
Booklet pages: 4
Reviewer: Robert Anderson
Review of Britten Song Cycles published on 20 April 2011
Listen: Sonnet (track 7, 0:00-0:59)
Benjamin Britten:
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op 31
1 Prologue
2 Pastorale (Cotton)
3 Nocturne (Tennyson)
4 Elegy (Blake)
5 Dirge (Anon)
6 Hymn (Ben Jonson)
7 Sonnet (Keats)
8 Epilogue
Peter Pears, tenor
Dennis Brain, horn
New Symphony Orchestra of London
Eugene Goossens, conductor
Winter Words, Op 52
9 At day-close in November
10 Midnight on the Great Western, 'The Journeying Boy'
11 Wagtail and Baby, 'A Satire'
12 The Little Old Table
13 The Choirmaster's Burial, 'The Tenor Man's Story'
14 Proud Songsters 'Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales'
15 At the Railway Station, Upway 'The Convict and the Boy with the Violin'
16 Before Life and After
Peter Pears, tenor
Benjamin Britten, piano
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op 22
17 Sonetto XVI. Si come nella penna e nell' inchiostro
18 Sonetto XXXI. A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia
19 Sonetto XXX. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume
20 Sonetto LV. Tu sa' ch'io so, signor mie, che tu sai
21 Sonetto XXXVIII. Rendete a gli occhi miei
22 Sonetto XXXII. S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna
23 Sonetto XXIV. Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede
Peter Pears, tenor
Benjamin Britten, piano
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