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Benjamin Britten
The Heart Of The Matter • Songs For Tenor And Piano

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.

     
Musicians
PortraitBenjamin Britten p, 1913-1976 GB
album by
PortraitPeter Pears voc, 1910-1986 GB
arranged by, speech
PortraitBarry Tuckwell alp, *1931 AU
horn
PortraitRoger Vignoles p, *1945 GB
piano
PortraitNeil Mackie voc, *1946 GB
tenor vocals
Producers
Mark Vigars engineer
Andrew Keener producer
William N. Robson producer
Album Tracks
No Title Artist Composer Duration
1The Heart Of The MatterBenjamin Britten
2A Sequence Of Music With Words By Edith SitwellBenjamin Britten
3Prologue:Benjamin Britten3:05
4FanfareBenjamin Britten
5Song: Where Are The Seeds Of The Universal FireBenjamin Britten
6Reading: The Earth Of My Heart Was Broken...Benjamin Britten1:46
7FanfareBenjamin Britten
8Reading: In The Hour When The Sapphire Of The Bone...Benjamin Britten
9Song: We Are The DarknessBenjamin Britten1:33
10Reading: In Such A Heat Of The Earth...Benjamin Britten2:53
11Canticle III: Still Falls The Rain Op. 55Benjamin Britten11:50
12Reading: I See Christ's Wounds Weep In The Rose On The Wall...Benjamin Britten2:19
13EpilogueBenjamin Britten3:09
14FanfareBenjamin Britten
15Song: So, Out Of The DarkBenjamin Britten
16Songs For Tenor And PianoBenjamin Britten
17Two Songs By Thomas Hardy:Benjamin Britten
18The Children And Sir NamelessBenjamin Britten2:48
19If It's Ever Spring AgainBenjamin Britten
20Three Early Songs:Benjamin Britten
21Beware! (Longfellow, From The German)Benjamin Britten1:02
22O That I Had Ne'er Been Married (Burns)Benjamin Britten1:23
23Epitaph: The Clerk (Asquith)Benjamin Britten0:52
24-Benjamin Britten
25For A Song (Burns)Benjamin Britten2:05
26Two Songs By W.H. Auden:Benjamin Britten
27To Lie Flat On The BackBenjamin Britten2:33
28Night Covers Up The Rigid LandBenjamin Britten2:44
29-Benjamin Britten
30Arr. Pears: The Oxen (Hardy)Benjamin Britten3:11
31Three Rhymes By William Soutar:Benjamin Britten
32Dawtie's DevotionBenjamin Britten0:48
33TraditionBenjamin Britten0:56
34The GullyBenjamin Britten0:55
35Three Realizations Of Henry Purcell:Benjamin Britten
36I'll Sail Upon The Dog-Star (D'Urfey)Benjamin Britten1:16
37The Knotting Song (Sedley)Benjamin Britten3:02
38Man Is For The Woman Made (Motteux)Benjamin Britten1:01
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