CD 1: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. War Requiem
War Requiem, Op.66:
Roger Burney - Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Piers Dunkerley - Captain, Royal Marines
David Gill - Ordinary Seaman, Royal Navy
Michael Halliday - Lieutenant, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve
Latin Text From Missa Pro Defunctis
Poems By Wilfred Owen
Requiem Aeternam:
01. Requiem Aeternam (Chorus)
02. What Passing Bells For These Who Die As Cattle? (Tenor)
Dies Irae:
03. Dies Irae (Chorus)
04. Bugles Sang (Baritone)
05. Liber Scriptus Proferetur (Soprano)
06. Out There (Tenor And Baritone)
07. Recordare Jesu Pie (Chorus) 08. Be Slowly Lifted Up (Baritone)
09. Dies Irae
10. Lacrimosa Dies Ilia (Soprano And Chorus)
11. Move Him Into The Sun (Tenor)
Offertorium:
12. Domine Jesu Christe (Boys)
13. So Abram Rose (Tenor And Baritone)
Sanctus:
14. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus (Soprano And Chorus)
15. After The Blast Of Lightning (Bantone)
Agnus Dei:
16 One Ever Hangs (Tenor And Chorus)
Libera Me:
17. Libera Me, Domine (Chorus)
18. It Seemed That Out Of Battle I Escaped (Tenor) 19. Let Us Sleep Now... In Paradisum (Baritone, Tenor, Boys, Soprano And Chorus)
Galina Vishnevskaya - Soprano
Peter Pears - Tenor
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Baritone
The Bach Choir & London Symphony Chorus
Chorus Master: David Willcocks
Highgate School Choir
Director: Edward Chapman
Simon Preston - Organ
Melos Ensemble
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
CD 2: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Spring Symphony / Cantata Academica
Spring Symphony, Op.44:
Part I:
01. I. Introduction: Shine Out (Anon, 16th Century)
02. II. The Merry Cuckoo (Edmund Spenser)
03. III. Spring, The Sweet Spring (Thomas Nashe)
04. IV. When As The Rye (The Driving Boy) (George Peele & John Clare)
05. V. Now The Bright Morning Star (John Milton)
Part II:
06. VI. Welcome Maids Of Honour (Robert Herrick)
07. VII. Waters Above! (Henry Vaughan)
08. VIII. Out On The Lawn I Lie In Bed (W. H. Auden)
Part III:
09. IX. When Will My May Come (Richarxt Barnefietd)
10. X. Fair And Fair (George Peele)
11. XI. Sound The Flute! (William Blake)
Part IV:
12. XII. Finale: London, To Thee I Do Present (Beaumont & Fletcher)
Jennifer Vyvyan - Soprano
Norma Procter - Contralto
Peter Pears - Tenor
Boys From Emanuel School, Wandsworth
Orchestra And Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Benjamin Britten
Cantata Academica (Carmen Basilienses), Op.62:
Part I:
13. I. Bonorum Summum Omnium / II. Quae Bene Beateque Vivendi
14. III. At Huius Caelestis / IV. Maiorum Imprimis Virtus / V. Turn Vera Aeneas Sylvius
15. VI. Et Gubemacula Mundi Qui Tenet / VII. Ut Ad Longaeva Tempora
Part II:
16. VIII. Docendi Ac Discendi Aequitati
17. IX. Rhenana Erga Omnes Urbs / X. Ut Iustissime Basilea Audat / XI. O Cives Basilienses
18. XII. Nos Autem Cuncti Hoc Festo Die / XIII. Vigeatque Academia Libera
Jennifer Vyvyan - Soprano
Helen Watts - Contralto
Peter Pears - Tenor
Owen Brannigan - Bass
Harold Lester - Piano
London Symphony Orchestra And Chorus
George Malcolm
Hymn To St Cecilia, Op.27:
19. I. In A Garden Shady
20. II. I Cannot Grow
21. III. O Ear Whose Creatures Cannot Wish To Fall
London Symphony Chorus
George Malcolm
CD 3: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Saint Nicolas
Saint Nicolas, Op.42:
01. Introduction
02. The Birth Of Nicolas
03. Nicolas Devotes Himself To God
04. He Journeys To Palestine
05. Nicolas Comes To Myra And Is Chosen Bishop
06. Nicolas From Prison
07. Nicolas And The Pickled Boys
08. His Piety And Marvellous Works
09. The Death Of Nicolas
Peter Pears - Tenor
David Hemmings - Boy Soprano
Ralph Downes - Organ
Girls' Choir Of Sir John Leman School, Beccles
Boys' Choir Of Ipswich School Preparatory Department
Three Boys From The Choir Of St Mary-Le-Tower, Ipswich
Aldeburgh Festival Choir And Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
Five Flower Songs, Op.47:
10. I. To Daffodils (Robert Herrick)
11. II. The Succession Of The Four Sweet Months (Robert Herrick)
12. III. Marsh Flowers (George Crabbe)
13. IV. The Evening Primrose (John Clare)
14. V. Ballad Of Green Broom (Anon)
Elizabethan Singers
Louis Halsey
15. Cantata Misericordium, Op.69
Peter Pears - Tenor
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Baritone
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
CD 4: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. A Boy Was Born / A Ceremony Of Carols
A Boy Was Born, Op.3:
01. Theme: A Boy Was Born (Anon, 16th Century)
02. Variation I: Lullay Jesu (Anon, Before 1356)
03. Variation II: Herod (Anon, 15th Century)
04. Variation III: Jesu As Thou Art Our Saviour (Anon, 15th Century)
05. Variation IV: The Three Kings (Anon, 15th Century)
06. Variation V: In The Bleak Mid-Winter (Christina Rossetti - Anon, 15th Century)
07. Variation VI: Finale - Noel! (Anon, 15th Century - Thomas Rugger, Francis Quarles)
Michael Hartnett - Treble
Purcell Singers
Boys' Voices Of The English Opera Group
Choristers Of All Saints, Margaret Street
Benjamin Britten
08. Corpus Christi Carol
John Hahessy - Boy Alto
Benjamin Britten - Piano
09. A Wealden Trio: Christmas Song Of The Women (1929)
10. The Sycamore Tree (1930) (Traditional)
11. A Shepherd's Carol (1944) (W.H. Auden)
The Wilbye Consort
Peter Pears - Director
Christ's Nativity -Christmas Suite For Chorus (1931) (Henry Vaughan):
12. Christ's Nativity
13. Sweet Was The Song (Judith Harris, Mezzo-Soprano)
14. Preparations
15. New Prince, New Pomp (Margaret Feaviour, Soprano)
16. Carol Of King Cnut
Bbc Singers
Steuart Bedford
A Ceremony Of Carols, Op. 28:
17. Procession
18. Wolcum Yule! (Anon)
19. There Is No Rose (Anon)
20. That Yonge Child (Anon) (Anon)
21. Balulalow (James, John And Robert Wedderburn)
22. As Dew In Aprille (Anon)
23. This Little Babe (Southwell)
24. Interlude (Andante Pastorale)
25. In Freezing Winter Night (Southwell)
26. Spring Carol (Cornish)
27. Deo Gracias - Adam Lay Ibounden (Anon)
28. Recession
Copenhagen Boys' Choir
Choir Master: Mogens Woldike
Enid Simon - Harp
Benjamin Britten
29. The Holly And The Ivy (1957)
Elizabethan Singers
Louis Halsey
CD 5: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Friday Afternoons / Choral Works
Songs From "Friday Afternoons", Op.7:
01. Begone, Dull Care! (Anon.) 02. A Tragic Story (Thackeray)
03. Cuckoo! (Jane Taylor)
04. A New Year Carol (Anon.)
05. I Mun Be Married On Sunday (Nicholas Udall)
06. There Was A Man Of Newington (Anon.)
07. Fishing Song (Izaak Walton)
08. The Useful Plough (Anon.)
09. Jazz-Man (Eleanor Farjeon)
10. There Was A Monkey (Anon.)
11. Old Abram Brown (Anon.)
12. Ee-Oh! (Anon.)
Choir Of Downside School, Purley
Derrick Herdman - Director Of Musk
Viola Tunnard - Piano
Benjamin Britten
Gemot Fuhrmann - Treble
Andrei Gavrilov - Piano
Wiener Sangerknaben
Jaume Miranda - Chorus Master
13. Psalm 150, Op.67
Downside School Choir & Orchestra
Derrick Herdman - Director Of Musk
Benjamin Britten
Three Two-Part Songs (1932):
14. I. The Ride-By-Nights
15. II. The Rainbow
16. The Ship Of Rio
New London Children's Choir
Alexander Wells - Piano
Ronald Corp
Two Two-Part Songs (1933):
17. I. Lov'd A Lass (George Wither)
18. II. Lift Boy (Robert Graves)
Elizabethan Singers
Wilfrid Parry - Piano
Louis Halsev
19. The Birds (1934)
John Hahessy - Boy Alto
Benjamin Britten - Piano
20. A Hymn To The Virgin (1930, Rev. 1934)
The Choir Of St John's College, Cambridge
Brian Runnett - Organ
George Guest
21. Jubilate Deo In E Flat (1934)
Truro Cathedral Choir
Luke Bond - Organ
Christopher Gray
22. Те Deum In С (1934)
The Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
Rory Phillips - Treble
James Lancelot - Organ
Philip Ledger
23. Advance Democracy - Motet (1938)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
24. Deus In Adjutorium Meum (1945) (Psalm 70) (This Way To The Tomb)
The Choir Of Tnmty College, Cambridge
Richard Marlow
A.M.D.G. (1939):
25. Heaven-Haven
26. O Deus, Ego Amo Te
27. Rosa Mystica
28. The Soldier
28. Prayer II
29. God's Grandeur
30. Prayer I
London Sinfom'etta Chorus
Terry Edwards
CD 6: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Rejoice In The Lamb / Missa Brevis
Rejoice In The Lamb, Op.30:
01. Rejoice In God, O Ye Tongues
02. For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey
03. For The Mouse Is A Creature Of Great Personal Valour
04. For The Flowers Are Great Blessings
05. For I Am Under The Same Accusation
06. For H Is A Spirit
Michael Hartnett - Treble
Jonathan Steele - Alto
Philip Todd - Tenor
Donald Francke - Bass
George Malcolm - Organ
The Purcell Singers
Benjamin Britten
07. Ballad Of Little Musgrave And Lady Barnard (1943) (Anon)
08. Chorale After An 4.06 Old French Carol (1944)
Elizabethan Singers
Louis Halsey
09.Festival Те Deum, Op.32
The Choir Of St John's College, Cambridge
Brian Runnett - Organ
George Guest
10. A Wedding Anthem, Op.46
The Sixteen
Margaret Phillips - Organ
Harry Christophers
11. A Hymn To St Peter, Op.56a
The Choir Of St John's College, Cambridge
Brian Runnett - Organ
George Guest
12. Antiphon, Op.56b
The Sixteen
Margaret Phillips - Organ
Harry Christophers
Missa Brevis, Op.63:
13. Купе Eleison
14 Gloria In Excelsis Deo
15. Sanctus... Benedictus
16. Agnus Dei
The Choir Of St John's College, Cambridge
Brian Runnett - Organ
George Guest
CD 7: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Sacred And Profane
01. Jubilate Deo In C (1961)
The Choir Of St John's College, Cambridge
Brian Runnett - Organ
George Guest
02. Venite Exultemus Domino (Psalm 95) (1961)
The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge
Richard Marlow
03. A Hymn Of St Columba (1962)
The Choir Of St John's College, Cambridge
Brian Runnett - Organ
George Guest
04. God Save The Queen (Anonymous, Arr. Britten)
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
05. Voices For Today, Op.75
Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus
The Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks
Benjamin Britten
Sacred And Profane, Op.91:
06. St Godric's Hymn
07. I Mon Waxe Wod
08. Lenten Is Come
09. The Long Night
10. Yif Ic Of Luve Can
11. Carol
12. Ye That Pasen By
13. A Death
The Wilbye Consort
Peter Pears - Director
14. Welcome Ode, Op.95
Suffolk Schools' Orchestra & Jubilee Choir
Keith Shaw
Praise We Great Men:
15. 'Praise We Great Men' -
16. 'Praise We The Just' -
17. (Coda)
Alison Hargan - oprano
Mary King - Mezzo-Soprano
Robert Tear - Tenor
Sir Willard White - Bass
City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
CD 8: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Srtings / Our Hunting Fathers
Quatre Chansons Franchises (1928):
01. Les Nuits De Juin (Victor Hugo)
02. Sagesse (Paul Verlaine)
03. L'Enfance (Victor Hugo)
04. Chanson D'automne (Pout Verlaine)
Jill Gomez - Soprano
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
05. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal (1943):
Neil Mackie - Tenor
Barry Tuckwell - Horn
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford
Our Hunting Fathers, Op.8:
06. Prologue
07. I. Rats Away! (Anon)
08. II. Messalina (Anon)
09. III. Dance Of Death (T. Ravenscroft)
10. Epilogue And Funeral March
Elisabeth Soderstrom - Soprano
Orchestra Of The Welsh National Opera
Richard Armstong
Ballad Of Heroes, Op.14:
11. I. Funeral March
12. II. Scherzo
13. III. Recitative And Choral
Robert Tear - Tenor
City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Serenade Op.31:
14. Prologue
15. Pastoral (Cotton)
16. Nocturne (Tennyson)
17. Elegy (Blake)
18. Dirge (Anon)
19. Hymn (Jonson)
20. Sonnet (Keats)
21. Epilogue
Peter Pears - Tenor
Barry Tuckwell - Horn
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
CD 9: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Les Illuminations / Nocturne / Phaedra
Les Illuminations, Op.18:
01. Fanfare
02. Villes
03. Phrase
04. Antique
05. Royaute
06. Marine
07. Interlude
08. Being Beauteous
09. Parade
10. Depart
Peter Pears - Tenor
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
Three Additional Songs For Les Illuminations, (Discarded 1939):
11. Phrase
12. Aube
13. A Une Raison
Sandrine Piau - Soprano
Northern Sinfonia
Thomas Zehetmair
Nocturne, Op.60:
14. On A Poet's Lips I Slept (Shelley: Prometheus Unbound)
15. Below The Thunders Of The Upper Deep (Tennyson: The Kraken)
16. Encinctured With A Twine Of Leaves (Coleridge: The Wanderings Of Coin)
17. Midnight's Bell Goes Ting, Ting, Ting,... (Middleton: Burt, Master Constable)
18. But That Night When On My Bed I Lay (Wordsworth: The Prelude (1805))
19. She Sleeps On Soft, Last Beaths (Owen: The Kind Ghosts)
20. What Is More Gentle Than A Wind In Summer? (Keats: Sleep And Poetry)
21. When Most I Wink, Then Do My Eyes Best See (Shakespeare: Sonnet 43)
Peter Pears - Tenor
Barry Tuckwell - Horn
William Waterhouse - Bassoon
Osian Ellis - Harp
Denis Blyth - Timpani
Roger Lord - Cor Anglais
Alexander Murray - Flute
Gervase De Peyer - Clarinet
Strings Of The London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
Phaedra, Op.93:
22. In May, In Brilliant Athens
23. Oh Gods Of Wrath
24. My Time's Too Short, Your Highness
Janet Baker - Phaedra
English Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford
CD 10: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Canticles I-V
Canticles:
01. Canticle I: My Beloved Is Mine, Op.40
Peter Pears - Tenor
Benjamin Britten - Piano
02. Canticle II: Abraham And Isaac, Op.51:The Chester Miracle Play
John Hahessy - Alto
Peter Pears - Tenor
Benjamin Britten - Piano
03. Canticle III: Still Falls The Rain, Op.55: Edith Sitwell
Peter Pears - Tenor
Barry Tuckwell - Horn
Benjamin Britten - Piano
04. Canticle IV: Journey Of The Magi, Op.86: T. S. Eliot
James Bowman - Counter-Tenor
Peter Pears - Tenor
John Shirley-Quirk - Baritone
Benjamin Britten - Piano
05. Canticle V: The Death Of St Narcissus, Op.89: T. S. Eliot
06. A Birthday Hansel, Op.92: Robert Burns
Peter Pears - Tenor
Osian Ellis - Harp
07. Sweeter Than Roses (Purcell, Arr. Britten)
James Bowman - Counter-Tenor
Benjamin Britten - Piano
CD 11: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. The Song Cycles 1
The Song Cycles 1:
The Heart Of The Matter (1956):
01. Prologue: Where Are The Seeds Of Universal Fire
02. Reading: The Earth Of My Heart Was Broken-Fanfare-Reading: In The Hour When The Sapphire Of The Bone
03. Song: We Are The Darkness In The Heat Of The Day
04. Reading: In Such A Heat Of The Earth
05. Canticle III: Still Falls The Rain
06. Reading: I See Christ's Wounds Weep In The Rose On The Wall
07. Epilogue: So, Out Of The Dark
Neil Mackie - Tenor
Roger Vignotes - Piano
Barry Tuckwell - Horn
Peter Pears - Speaker
Tit For Tat (1931 Rev. 1968):
08. A Song Of Enchantment
09. Autumn
10. Silver
11. Vigil
12. Tit For Tat
John Shirley-Quirk - Baritone
Benjamin Britten - Piano
On This Island, Op.11:
13. I. Let The Florid Music Praise!
14. II. Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast
15. III. Seascape
16. IV. Nocturne
17. V. As It Is, Plenty
Barbara Bonney - Soprano
Malcolm Martineau - Piano
Four Cabaret Songs (1939):
18. Calypso
19. Tell Me The Truth About Love
20. Johnny
21. Funeral Blues
Caryl Hughes - Mezzo-Soprano
Malcolm Martineau - Piano
Seven Sonnets Of Michelangelo, Op.22:
22. Si Come Nella Penna (Sonetto XVI)
23. A Che Piu Debb'io Mai (Sonetto XXXI)
24. Veggio Со' Bel Vostri Occhi (Sonetto XXX)
25.Tu Sa' Ch'io So (Sonetto LV)
26. Rendete A Gli Occhi Miei (Sonetto XXXVIII)
27. S' Un Casto Amor (Sonetto XXXII)
28. Spirito Ben Nato (Sonetto XXIV)
Peter Pears - Tenor
Benjamin Britten - Piano
CD 12: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. The Song Cycles 2
The Song Cycles 2:
Hie Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op.35:
01. Oh My Blacke Soule!
02. Batter My Heart
03. Oh Might Those Sighes And Teares
04. Oh, To Vex Me
05. What If This Present
06. Since She Whom I Lov'd
07. At The Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners 08. Thou Hast Made Me
09. Death Be Not Proud
Peter Pears - Tenor
Benjamin Britten - Piano
A Charm Of Lullabies, Op.41:
10. Cradle Song (William Blake)
11. The Highland Bales (Robert Burns)
12. Sephestia's Lullaby (Robert Greene)
13. A Charm (Thomas Randolph)
14. The Nurse's Song (John Phillip)
Pamela Bowden - Contralto
Peter Gellhorn - Piano
Winter Words, Op.52:
15. At Day-Close In November
16. Midnight On The Great Western
17. Wagtail And Baby
18. The Little Old Table
19. The Choirmaster's Burial 20. Proud Songsters
21. At The Railway Station, Upwa
22. Before Life And After
Peter Pears - Tenor
Benjamin Britten - Piano
Two Additional Settings For Winter Words (Discarded):
23. If It's Ever Spring Again (Thomas Hardy)(1953) 24. The Children And Sir Nameless (Thomas Hardy)(1953)
Robin Tritschler - Tenor
Malcolm Martineau - Piano
Songs From The Chinese, Op.58:
25. The Big Chariot (Anon., Trs. Arthur Waley)
26. The Old Lute (Po Chu-I, Trs. Arthur Waley)
27. The Autumn Wind (Wu-Ri Trs. Arthur Waley)
28. The Herd-Boy (Lu Yu. Trs. Arthur Waley)
29. Depression (Po Chu-I, Trs, Arthur Waley)
30. Dance Song (Anon., Trs. Arthur Waley)
Peter Pears - Tenor
Julian Bream - Gutar
CD 13: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. The Song Cycles 3
The Song Cycles 3:
Six Holderlin Fragments, Op.61:
01. Menschenbeifall
02. Dieheimat
03. Sokrates Und Alcibiades
04. Diejugend
05. Halfte Des Lebens
06. Die Linien Des Lebens
Peter Pears - Tenor
Benjamin Britten - Piano
Songs And Proverbs Of William Blake, Op.74:
07. The Pride Of The Peacock ... London
08. Prisons Are Built... The Chimney Sweeper
09. The Bird A Nest... A Poison Tree
10. Think In The Morning... The Tyger
11. The Tygers Of Wrath... The Fly
12. The Hours Of Folly... Ah, Sun-Flower
13. To See A World... Every Night & Every Morn
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Baritone
Benjamin Britten - Piano
The Poet's Echo, Op.76:
14. Ekho (Echo)
15. Ya Dumal, Serdtse Pozabilo... (My Heart, I Thought You Had Forgotten...)
16. Angel (The Angel)
17. Solovyei I Roza (The Nightingale And The Rose)
18. Epigramma (Epigram)
19. Stikhi, Sochinyonniye Nochyu Vo Vremya Bessonnitsi (Lines Written During A Sleepless Night)
Galina Vishnevskaya - Soprano
Mstislav Rostropovich - Piano
Who Are These Children? Op.84:
20. A Riddle (The Earth)
21. A Laddie's Sang
22. Nightmare
23. Black Day
24. Bed-time
25. Slaughter
26. Riddle (The child you were)
27. The Larky Lad
28. Who are these children?
29. Supper
30. The Children
31. The Auld Aik
Peter Pears - Tenor
Benjamin Britten - Piano
Three Rhymes By William Soutar (1971):
32. Dawtie's Devotion
33. The Gully
34. Tradition
Nicky Spence - Tenor
Malcolm Martineau - Piano
CD 14: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Early And Miscellaneous Songs
Early And Miscellaneous Songs:
01. Beware! (1923) (Henry Wordsworth Longfellow)
02. That I Had Ne'er Been Married (1922) (Robert Burns)
03. Epitaph: The Clerk (1926) (Herbert Asquith)
04. Of A' The Airts The Wind Can Blaw (1926) (Robert Burns)
05. A Dirge (1926) (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
06. Prithee (1926) (Sir John Suckling)
07. The Joy Of Grief (1926) (Alfred Tennyson)
08. Virtue In Deeds Not Words (1926) (Philip Bailey)
09. Lucy (1926) (William Wordsworth)
10. Dans Les Bois (1928) (Gerard De Nerval)
11. Lilian (1929) (Alfred Tennyson)
12. Diaphenia (1929) (Henry Chettle)
13. The Owl (1929) (Alfred Tennyson)
14. Witches' Song (1929) (Ben Johnson)
15. O Why Did E're My Thoughts (1929) (Charles Sackville)
16. Chamber Music V (1930) (James Joyce)
17. Song - Take, O Take Those Lips Away (William Shakespeare)
Two Ballads For Two Voices And Piano (1936):
18. I. Mother Comfort (Montagu Slater)
19. II. Underneath The Abject Willow (W. H. Auden) 20. A Poison Tree (1935) (William Blake)
21. Not Even Summer Yet (1937) (Peter Buna)
22. The Red Cockatoo (1938) (Arthur Waley)
Six Settings Of W.H. Auden (1937-41)
23. To Lie Flat On The Back
24. Night Covers Up The Rigid Land
25. The Sun Shines Down
26. Fish In The Unruffled Lakes
27. What's In Your Mind?
28. Underneath The Abject Willow
29. Wild With Passion (1942) (Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
30. If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart (1942) (Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
31. Sleep, My Darling, Sleep - Cradle Song For Eleanor (1942) (Louis Macneice)
32. Birthday Song For Erwin (1945) (Ronald Duncan)
33. Urn Mitternacht (1962) (Wolfgang Von Goethe)
34. The Bitter Withy (1962)
35. King Herod And The Cock (1962)
36. Fancie (1961) (William Shakespeare)
37. The Oxen (1967) (Thomas Hardy)
38. May (1934)
39. The Twelve Apostles (1962)
Philip Smith - Baritone
Nicky Spence - Tenor
James Geer - Tenor
Katherine Broderick - Soprano
Andrew Tortise - Tenor
Caryl Hughes - Mezzo-Soprano
Ben Johnson - Tenor
Elizabeth Atherton - Soprano
Andrew Swait - Treble
James Bowman - Counter-Tenor
Benedict Nelson - Baritone
Allan Clayton - Tenor
Robin Tritschler - Tenor
Felicity Lotth - Soprano
Ann Murray - Mezzo-Soprano
Philip Langridge - Tenor
Benjamin Hulett - Tenor
Malcolm Martineau - Piano
Wenhaston Boys' Choir
Andrew Plant - Piano
New London Children's Choir
Graham Johnson - Piano
David Owen Norris - Piano
Alexander Wells - Piano
Ronald Corp - Conductor
CD 15: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Folksongs 1
Folksongs 1:
01. The Foggy, Foggy Dew
02. Sally In Our Alley
03. Tom Bowling (Dibdin, Arr. Britten)
04. The Lincolnshire Poacher
05. The Brisk Young Widow
06. O Waly, Waly
07. Sweet Polly Oliver
08. Early One Morning
09. The Bonny Earl O' Moray
10. The Ash Grove
11. Come You Not From Newcastle?
12. Le Roi S'en Va-T'-En Chasse
13. La Belle Est Au Jardin D'amour
14. The Minstrel Boy
15. How Sweet The Answer
16. The Last Rose Of Summer
17. Avenging And Bright
18. Oft In The Stilly Night
19. The Miller Of Dee
20. Ca' The Yowes
21. The Plough Boy
22. The Salley Gardens
23. Little Sir William
24. Oliver Cromwell
25. Heigh Ho! Heigh Hi!
26. There's None To Soothe
27. II Est Quelqu'un Sur Terre
28. O Can Ye Sew Cushions?
29. The Trees They Grow So High
30. Void Le Printemps
31. Fileuse
32. Quand J'etais Chez Mon Pere
Peter Pears - Tenor
Philip Langridge - Tenor
Sophie Wyss - Soprano
Benjamin Britten - Piano
Graham Johnson - Piano
Osian Ellis - Harp
CD 16: Britten. The Complete Works For Voice. Folksongs 2
Folksongs 2:
01. I Will Give My Love An Apple
02. Sailor-Boy
03. Master Kilby
04.The Soldier And The Sailor
05. The Shooting Of His Dear
06. Bonny At Morn
07. Greensleeves
08. I Wonder As I Wander
09. The Crocodile
10. Pray Goody
11. At The Mid Hour Of Night
12. Dear Harp Of My Country!
13. O The Sight Entrancing
14. Sail On, Sail On
15. Rich And Rare
16. La Noel Passee
17. Eho! Eho!
18. The Holly And The Ivy
19. Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?
20. The Deaf Woman's Courtship
21. The Stream In The Valley
22. Unidentified Folk Song Setting
23. Lord! I Married Me A Wife
24. She's Like The Swallow
25. Lemady
26. Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (I Was Lonely And Forlorn)
27. Dafyd У Garreg Wen (David Of The White Rock)
28. The False Knight Upon The Road
29. Bird Scarer's Song
Robert Tear - Tenor
Philip Langridge - Tenor
Felicity Lott - Soprano
Christopher Van Kampen - Cello
Timothy Walker - Guitar
Osian Ellis - Harp
Graham Johnson - Piano
