 
Britten / Finzi - Mark Padmore - Britten Sinfonia
HMU 807552
DSD
Stereo / Multichannel
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 78'29"
Tracks: 21
Booklet pages: 72
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Sent to a reviewer on 17 May 2012
Listen: Finzi: Danza (Dies Natalis) (track 19, 3:04-4:02)
Mark Padmore, tenor
Stephen Bell, horn
Britten Sinfonia
Jacqueline Shave, director
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976):
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op 31 (1943)
1 Prologue
2 Pastoral (Cotton)
3 Nocturne (Tennyson)
4 Elegy (Blake)
5 Dirge (anonymous 15th century)
6 Hymn (Jonson)
7 Sonnet (Keats)
8 Epilogue
Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings Op 60 (1958)
9 On a poet's lips I slept (Shelley)
10 Below the thunders of the upper deep (Tennyson)
Sarah Burnett, bassoon
11 Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Coleridge)
Lucy Wakeford, harp
12 Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting (Middleton)
Stephen Bell, horn
13 But that night when on my bed I lay (Wordsworth)
Scott Bywater, timpani
14 She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Owen)
Nicholas Daniel, cor anglais
15 What is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Keats)
Emer McDonough, flute
Joy Farrall, clarinet
16 When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Shakespeare)
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956):
Dies Natalis, Op 8 (1938-39) (Thomas Traherne)
17 Intrada
18 Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato)
19 The Rapture (Danza)
20 Wonder (Arioso)
21 The Salutation (Aria)
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