Britten: Serenade, Op. 31 / Nocturne, Op. 60 / Phaedra, Op. 93 - CD

Benjamin Britten

Serenade, Op. 31 (1943)

 

1. Prologue

00:01:23

 

2. Pastoral

00:03:14

 

3. Nocturne

00:03:36

 

4. Elegy

00:04:09

 

5. Dirge

00:03:21

 

6. Hymn

00:01:58

 

7. Sonnet

00:03:44

 

8. Epilogue (off stage)

00:01:32

Nocturne, Op. 60 (1958)

 

9. On a poet's lips I slept

00:03:18

 

10. Below the thunders of the upper deep

00:02:56

 

11. Encintured with a twine of leaves

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12. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting

00:02:31

 

13. But that night when on my bed I lay

00:02:56

 

14. She sleeps on soft, last breaths; but no ghost looms

00:04:09

 

15. What is more gentle than a wind in summer?

00:03:41

 

16. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see

00:04:15

Phaedra, Op. 93 (1975)

 

17. Prologue - In May, in brilliant Athens

00:01:32

 

18. My lost and dazzled eyes

00:01:02

 

19. Venus resigned her altar to my new Lord

00:00:43

 

20. Phaedra in all her madness stands before you

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21. The wife of Theseus loves Hippolytus

00:01:28

 

22. Oh Gods of wrath

00:02:26

 

23. Death to the unhappy's no catastrophe

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24. My time's too short, your highness

00:01:42

 

25. Chills already dart along my boiling veins

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