Album UK 1987 on EMI Digital label
Classical (Modern)
Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7 to 22 recorded at No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 27 May and 18 July 1986. Tracks 2, 4, 6 recorded by the BBC, 1985. Tracks 2, 4, 6 (c) BBC; all other tracks (c) EMI Records Ltd.
Benjamin Britten p, 1913-1976 GB album by | |
Peter Pears voc, 1910-1986 GB arranged by, speech | |
Barry Tuckwell alp, *1931 AU horn | |
Roger Vignoles p, *1945 GB piano | |
Neil Mackie voc, *1946 GB tenor vocals |
Mark Vigars engineer |
Andrew Keener producer |
William N. Robson producer |
Benjamin Britten |
No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
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1 | The Heart Of The Matter | Benjamin Britten | ||
2 | A Sequence Of Music With Words By Edith Sitwell | Benjamin Britten | ||
3 | Prologue: | Benjamin Britten | 3:05 | |
4 | Fanfare | Benjamin Britten | ||
5 | Song: Where Are The Seeds Of The Universal Fire | Benjamin Britten | ||
6 | Reading: The Earth Of My Heart Was Broken... | Benjamin Britten | 1:46 | |
7 | Fanfare | Benjamin Britten | ||
8 | Reading: In The Hour When The Sapphire Of The Bone... | Benjamin Britten | ||
9 | Song: We Are The Darkness | Benjamin Britten | 1:33 | |
10 | Reading: In Such A Heat Of The Earth... | Benjamin Britten | 2:53 | |
11 | Canticle III: Still Falls The Rain Op. 55 | Benjamin Britten | 11:50 | |
12 | Reading: I See Christ's Wounds Weep In The Rose On The Wall... | Benjamin Britten | 2:19 | |
13 | Epilogue | Benjamin Britten | 3:09 | |
14 | Fanfare | Benjamin Britten | ||
15 | Song: So, Out Of The Dark | Benjamin Britten | ||
16 | Songs For Tenor And Piano | Benjamin Britten | ||
17 | Two Songs By Thomas Hardy: | Benjamin Britten | ||
18 | The Children And Sir Nameless | Benjamin Britten | 2:48 | |
19 | If It's Ever Spring Again | Benjamin Britten | ||
20 | Three Early Songs: | Benjamin Britten | ||
21 | Beware! (Longfellow, From The German) | Benjamin Britten | 1:02 | |
22 | O That I Had Ne'er Been Married (Burns) | Benjamin Britten | 1:23 | |
23 | Epitaph: The Clerk (Asquith) | Benjamin Britten | 0:52 | |
24 | - | Benjamin Britten | ||
25 | For A Song (Burns) | Benjamin Britten | 2:05 | |
26 | Two Songs By W.H. Auden: | Benjamin Britten | ||
27 | To Lie Flat On The Back | Benjamin Britten | 2:33 | |
28 | Night Covers Up The Rigid Land | Benjamin Britten | 2:44 | |
29 | - | Benjamin Britten | ||
30 | Arr. Pears: The Oxen (Hardy) | Benjamin Britten | 3:11 | |
31 | Three Rhymes By William Soutar: | Benjamin Britten | ||
32 | Dawtie's Devotion | Benjamin Britten | 0:48 | |
33 | Tradition | Benjamin Britten | 0:56 | |
34 | The Gully | Benjamin Britten | 0:55 | |
35 | Three Realizations Of Henry Purcell: | Benjamin Britten | ||
36 | I'll Sail Upon The Dog-Star (D'Urfey) | Benjamin Britten | 1:16 | |
37 | The Knotting Song (Sedley) | Benjamin Britten | 3:02 | |
38 | Man Is For The Woman Made (Motteux) | Benjamin Britten | 1:01 |