Britten: Songs - CD

Benjamin Britten

Winter Words, Op. 52

 

1. At day-close in November

01:34

 

2. Midnight on the Great Western (or ‘The Journeying Boy’)

05:06

 

3. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)

02:05

 

4. The Little Old Table

01:23

 

5. The Choirmaster’s Burial (or ‘The Tenor Man’s Story’)

04:06

 

6. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)

01:11

 

7. At the Railway Station, Upway (or ‘The Convict and Boy with the Violin’)

02:58

 

8. Before Life and After

03:24

Four Burns Songs

 

9. Afton Water, Op.92 No.5

02:28

 

10. Wee Willie Gray, Op.92 No.3

00:50

 

11. The Winter, Op.92 No.6

03:15

 

12. My Hoggie, Op.92 No.4

01:47

Who are these Children?, Op. 84

 

13. A Riddle (The Earth)

01:21

 

14. A Laddie’s Sang

01:13

 

15. Nightmare

02:41

 

16. Black Day

00:40

 

17. Bed-time

01:22

 

18. Slaughter

01:46

 

19. A Riddle (The child you were)

00:56

 

20. The Larky Lad

00:36

 

21. Who are these Children?

02:28

 

22. Supper

01:29

 

23. The Children

05:25

 

24. The Auld Aik

02:01

 

25. If it’s ever Spring again

02:40

 

26. Dawtie’s Devotion

01:17

 

27. The Gully

00:53

 

28. The Children and Sir Nameless

02:42

 

29. Tradition

00:52

 

30. Ca’ the yowes

04:08