Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings / Nocturne / Les Illuminations

Tracklist

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• 1 Les Illuminations, op. 18: I. Fanfare 2:05
• 2 Les Illuminations, op. 18: II. Villes 2:30
• 3 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IIIa. Phrase 1:07
• 4 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IIIb. Antique 2:05
• 5 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IV. Royauté 1:40
• 6 Les Illuminations, op. 18: V. Marine 0:59
• 7 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VI. Interlude 2:14
• 8 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VII. Being Beauteous 3:56
• 9 Les Illuminations, op. 18: VIII. Parade 2:39
• 10 Les Illuminations, op. 18: IX. Départ 2:29
• 11 Serenade, op. 31: Prologue 1:24
• 12 Serenade, op. 31: 1. astoral 3:44
• 13 Serenade, op. 31: 2. Nocturne 3:28
• 14 Serenade, op. 31: 3. Elegy 4:30
• 15 Serenade, op. 31: 4. Dirge 3:25
• 16 Serenade, op. 31: 5. Hymn 2:02
• 17 Serenade, op. 31: 6. Sonnet 4:45
• 18 Serenade, op. 31: Epilogue 1:33
• 19 Nocturne, op. 60: "On a poet's lips I slept" 3:29
• 20 Nocturne, op. 60: "Below the tunders of the uppder deep" 3:29
• 21 Nocturne, op. 60: "Encinctured with a twine of leaves" 2:13
• 22 Nocturne, op. 60: "Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting" 2:24
• 23 Nocturne, op. 60: "But that night when on my bed I lay" 3:03
• 24 Nocturne, op. 60: "She sleeps on soft, last breaths" 4:38
• 25 Nocturne, op. 60: "What is more gentle than a wind in summer?" 3:01
• 26 Nocturne, op. 60: "When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see" 5:09

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