Vocal Works

Tracklist

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Disc 1

• 1 Les Illuminations, op. 18: Fanfare 2:05
• 2 Les Illuminations, op. 18: Villes 2:30
• 3 Les Illuminations, op. 18: Phrase 1:07
• 4 Les Illuminations, op. 18: Antique 2:04
• 5 Les Illuminations, op. 18: Royauté 1:40
• 6 Les Illuminations, op. 18: Marine 0:59
• 7 Les Illuminations, op. 18: Interlude 2:14
• 8 Les Illuminations, op. 18: Being Beauteous 3:56
• 9 Les Illuminations, op. 18: Parade 2:39
• 10 Les Illuminations, op. 18: Départ 2:37
• 11 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Prologue 1:20
• 12 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Pastoral (Cotton) 3:26
• 13 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Nocturne (Tennyson) 3:29
• 14 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Elegy (Blake) 4:10
• 15 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Dirge (Anon) 3:37
• 16 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Hymn (Jonson) 2:03
• 17 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Sonnet (Keats) 3:43
• 18 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, op. 31: Epilogue 1:30
• 19 Now sleeps the crimson petal 3:04
• 20 Nocturne, op. 60: On a poet's lips I slept 3:30
• 21 Nocturne, op. 60: Below the thunders of the upper deep 3:29
• 22 Nocturne, op. 60: Encinctured with a twine of leaves 2:13
• 23 Nocturne, op. 60: Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting 2:24
• 24 Nocturne, op. 60: But that night when on my bed I lay 3:03
• 25 Nocturne, op. 60: She sleeps on soft, last breaths 4:38
• 26 Nocturne, op. 60: What is more gentle than a wind in summer 3:01
• 27 Nocturne, op. 60: When most I wink, then do my eyes best see 5:08

Disc 2

• 1 Quatre Chansons françaises : 1. Les Nuits de juin (Victor Hugo) 2:50
• 2 Quatre Chansons françaises : 2. Sagesse (Paul Verlaine) 2:49
• 3 Quatre Chansons françaises : 3. L'Enfance (Victor Hugo) 4:30
• 4 Quatre Chansons françaises : 4. Chansons d'automne (Paul Verlaine) 2:33
• 5 Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : Prologue 2:00
• 6 Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : A. Rats Away! (Anon) 4:40
• 7 Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : B. Messalina (Anon) 6:55
• 8 Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : C. Dance of Death (T. Ravenscroft) 6:29
• 9 Our Hunting Fathers Op.8 : Epilogue and Funeral March 6:18
• 10 Folksong arrangements : Little Sir William 2:32
• 11 Folksong arrangements : Come ye not from Newcastle? 1:25
• 12 Folksong arrangements : Bonny Earl Moray 2:37
• 13 Folksong arrangements : Oliver Cromwell 0:48
• 14 Phaedra Op.93 : In May, in brilliant Athens 6:32
• 15 Phaedra Op.93 : O Gods of wrath 3:14
• 16 Phaedra Op.93 : My time's too short, your highness 6:18
• 17 Five French folksong arrangements : La belle est au jardin d'amour 2:52
• 18 Five French folksong arrangements : Eho! Eho! 2:00
• 19 Five French folksong arrangements : Fileuse 1:56
• 20 Five French folksong arrangements : Quand j'etais chez mon père 2:00
• 21 Five French folksong arrangements : Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse 2:51

Disc 3

• 1 Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 1. Sì come nella penna (XVI) 2:03
• 2 Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 2. A che più debb'io mai (XXXI) 1:20
• 3 Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 3. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi (XXX) 3:10
• 4 Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 4. Tu sa' ch'io so (LV) 1:46
• 5 Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 5. Rendete a gli occhi miei (XXXVIII) 1:50
• 6 Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 6. S'un casto amor (XXXII) 1:15
• 7 Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22 : 7. Spirito ben nato (XXIV) 4:51
• 8 Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 1. Oh my blacke soule 3:19
• 9 Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 2. Batter my heart 1:13
• 10 Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 3. O might those sighes and teares 3:04
• 11 Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 4. Oh, to vex me 1:04
• 12 Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 5. What if this present 2:57
• 13 Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 6. Since she whom I loved 3:48
• 14 Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 7. At the round earth's imagined corners 2:47
• 15 Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 8. Thou hast made me 1:24
• 16 Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35 : 9. Death, be not proud 4:15
• 17 On This Island Op.11 : 1. Let the florid music praise! 3:08
• 18 On This Island Op.11 : 2. Now the leaves are falling fast 1:58
• 19 On This Island Op.11 : 3. Seascape 1:58
• 20 On This Island Op.11 : 4. Nocturne 3:59
• 21 On This Island Op.11 : 5. As it is; plenty 1:29
• 22 Winter Words Op.52 : 1. At day-close in November 1:34
• 23 Winter Words Op.52 : 2. Midnight on the Great Western 4:45
• 24 Winter Words Op.52 : 3. Wagtail and Baby 1:53
• 25 Winter Words Op.52 : 4. The Little Old Table 1:21
• 26 Winter Words Op.52 : 5. The Choirmaster's Burial 3:57
• 27 Winter Words Op.52 : 6. Proud Songsters 1:07
• 28 Winter Words Op.52 : At the Railway Station, Upway 3:06
• 29 Winter Words Op.52 : Before Life and After 3:03

Disc 4

• 1 Canticle 1: My Beloved is Mine, op.40 7:53
• 2 Canticle 2: Abraham and Isaac, op.51 17:04
• 3 Canticle 3: Still Falls the Rain, op.55 11:42
• 4 Canticle 4: Journey of the Magi, op.86 12:16
• 5 Canticle 5: The Death of Saint Narcissus, op.89 7:49
• 6 The Plough Boy 1:50
• 7 The Salley Gardens 2:41
• 8 The foggy, foggy dew 2:40
• 9 There's none to soothe 1:48
• 10 O Waly, Waly 3:54
• 11 The Ash Grove 3:00
• 12 Greensleeves 2:17

Disc 5

• 1 Two Songs by Thomas Hardy : 1. The Childrfen and Sir Nameless 2:51
• 2 Two Songs by Thomas Hardy : 2. If it's ever spring again 3:06
• 3 Beware! - Three Early Songs : 1. Beware! (Longfellow, from the German) 1:02
• 4 Beware! - Three Early Songs : 2. O that I had ne'er been married (Burns) 1:23
• 5 Beware! - Three Early Songs : 3. Epitaph: The Clerk (Asquith) 0:52
• 6 Not even summer yet (Burns) 2:05
• 7 Two songs by W.H. Auden : To lie flat on the back 2:32
• 8 Two songs by W.H. Auden : Night covers up the rigid land 2:44
• 9 The Oxen 3:10
• 10 Three rhymes by William Soutar : Dawlie's Devotion 0:48
• 11 Three rhymes by William Soutar : Tradition 0:56
• 12 Three rhymes by William Soutar : The Gully 0:56
• 13 Tit for Tat : 1. A Song Echantment 2:29
• 14 Tit for Tat : 3. Silver 1:53
• 15 Tit for Tat : 5. Tit for Tat 2:18
• 16 Two Ballads for voices and piano : 1. Mother Comfort 3:41
• 17 Two Ballads for voices and piano : 2. Underneath the Abject Willow 2:10
• 18 Folksong arrangements : Sweet Polly Oliver 1:55
• 19 Folksong arrangements : The Minstrel Boy 2:28
• 20 Folksong arrangements : The Brisk Young Widow 2:14
• 21 Folksong arrangements : Ca' the Yowes 3:53
• 22 Folksong arrangements : The Lincolnshire Poacher 1:58
• 23 Folksong arrangements : O can ye sew cushions? 2:23
• 24 Folksong arrangements : The trees they grow so high 3:17
• 25 Folk songs : Early one morning 3:31
• 26 Folk songs : How sweet the answer 2:12
• 27 Folk songs : Voici le printemps 2:00
• 28 Folk songs : The last rose of Summer 4:31
• 29 Folk songs : Dear Harp of my Country! 2:32
• 30 Folk songs : Oft in the stilly night 2:48

Disc 6

• 1 Realisations of music by Henry Purcell : The Queen's Epicedium 7:54
• 2 from Orpheus Britannicus : Sound the Trumpet 2:27
• 3 from Orpheus Britannicus : I attempt from love's sickness to fly 2:46
• 4 from Orpheus Britannicus : Lost is my quiet for ever 3:20
• 5 from Orpheus Britannicus : Fairest Isle 2:10
• 6 from Orpheus Britannicus : What can we poor females do? 1:18
• 7 from Orpheus Britannicus : I'll sail upon the Dog-star 1:15
• 8 from Orpheus Britannicus : The Knotting Song 3:02
• 9 from Orpheus Britannicus : Man is for the woman made 1:07
• 10 Suite of Songs : 1. Let sullen discord smile 2:06
• 11 Suite of Songs : 2. Why should men quarrel? 1:31
• 12 Suite of Songs : 3. So when the glittering Queen of Night 4:07
• 13 Suite of Songs : 4. Thou tun'st this world 2:10
• 14 Suite of Songs : 5a. 'Tis holiday , 5b. Sound Fame thy brazen trumpet 2:47
• 15 Schubert Die Forelle D550 2:00
• 16 Schumann: Frühlingsnacht (No.12 from Liederkreis Op.39) 1:13

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