The Complete Orchestral Song-Cycles

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

• 1 Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): Nuits de Juin 2:55
• 2 Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): Sagesse 2:42
• 3 Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): L'Enfance 3:55
• 4 Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): Chanson d'Automne 2:42
• 5 Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Prologue 2:22
• 6 Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Rats Away! 4:24
• 7 Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Messalina 7:27
• 8 Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge) 6:04
• 9 Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Epilogue and Funeral March 7:49
• 10 Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): I Fanfare 1:57
• 11 Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): II Villes 2:32
• 12 Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IIIa Phrase 1:06
• 13 Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IIIb Antique 2:01
• 14 Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IV Royauté 1:38
• 15 Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): V Marine 0:59
• 16 Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): VI Interlude 2:26
• 17 Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): VII Being Beauteous 3:51
• 18 Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): VIII Parade 2:44
• 19 Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IX Départ 2:56

Disc 2

• 1 Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Prologue 1:22
• 2 Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Pastoral 3:13
• 3 Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Nocturne 3:35
• 4 Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Elegy 4:08
• 5 Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Dirge 3:21
• 6 Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Hymn 2:00
• 7 Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Sonnet 3:43
• 8 Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Epilogue (Off Stage) 1:38
• 9 Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): On a poet's lips I slept... 3:09
• 10 Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): Below the thunders of the upper deep... 2:56
• 11 Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): Encinctured with a twine of leaves... 2:48
• 12 Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting... 2:30
• 13 Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): But that night when on my bed I lay... 2:56
• 14 Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): She sleeps on soft, last breaths, but no ghost looms... 4:08
• 15 Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): What is more gentle than a wind in summer... 3:41
• 16 Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see... 4:23
• 17 Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Prologue 'In May, in brilliant Athens...' 1:23
• 18 Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): My lost and dazzled eyes... 1:01
• 19 Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Venus resigned her altar to my new Lord... 0:42
• 20 Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Phaedra in all her nadness stands before you 1:41
• 21 Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): The wife of Theseus loves Hippolytus... 1:27
• 22 Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Oh Gods of wrath... 2:26
• 23 Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Death to the unhappy no catastrophe... 1:45
• 24 Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): My time's too short, your highness... 1:41
• 25 Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Chills already dart along my boiling veins... 2:40

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