Les illuminations ; Serenade ; Nocturne / Benjamin Britten.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, composer.

Contributor:

Staples, Andrew, singer.

Parkes, Christopher, instrumentalist.

Harding, Daniel, conductor.

Sveriges radios symfoniorkester, instrumentalist.

Standardized Title:

Songs. Selections

Language:

English

French

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891--Musical settings.

Rimbaud, Arthur.

Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687--Musical settings.

Cotton, Charles.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Musical settings.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson.

Blake, William, 1757-1827--Musical settings.

Blake, William.

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637--Musical settings.

Jonson, Ben.

Keats, John, 1795-1821--Musical settings.

Keats, John.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822--Musical settings.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Musical settings.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

Middleton, Thomas, -1627--Musical settings.

Middleton, Thomas.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Musical settings.

Wordsworth, William.

Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918--Musical settings.

Owen, Wilfred.

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.

Keats, John, 1795-1821.

Middleton, Thomas, -1627.

Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918.

Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Song cycles.

Songs (High voice) with string orchestra.

Songs (High voice) with orchestra.

Genre:

Musical settings.

Song cycles.

Songs.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (74 min., 7 sec.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Arles, France : Harmonia Mundi, [2022]

Language Note:

Sung in French or English.

System Details:

digital

optical

audio file

CD audio

Contents:

Les illuminations op. 18 for high voice and string orchestra (1939). Poems by Arthur Rimbaud. I. Fanfare ; II. Villes ; III. a Phrase ; III. b. Antique ; IV. Royauté ; V. Marine ; VI. Interlude ; VII. Being beauteous ; VIII. Parade ; IX. Départ

Serenade op. 31 for horn, tenor and strings (1943). I. Prologue ; II. Pastoral (Charles Cotton) ; III. Nocturne (Alfred Lord Tennyson) ; IV. Elegy (William Blake) ; V. Dirge (anonymous, XVth century) ; VI. Hymn (Ben Jonson) ; VII. Sonnet (John Keats) ; VIII. Epilogue

Nocturne op. 60 for tenor, 7 obbligato instruments and strings (1958). 'On a poet's lips I slept' (Percy Bysshe Shelley) ; 'Below the thunders of the upper deep' (Alfred Lord Tennyson) ; 'Encinctured with a twine of leaves' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) ; 'Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting' (Thomas Middleton) ; 'But that night when on my bed I lay' (William Wordsworth) ; 'She sleeps on soft, last breaths' (Wilfred Owen) ; 'What is more gentle than a wind in summer?' (John Keats) ; 'When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see' (William Shakespeare).

Participant:

Andrew Staples, tenor ; Christopher Parkes, horn ; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Daniel Harding, conductor ; featuring Fredrik Ekhdahl, bassoon (track 20) ; Lisa Viguier Vallgårda, harp (track 21) ; Christopher Parkes, horn (track 22) ; Tomas Nilsson, timpani (track 23) ; Sofi Berner, cor anglais (track 24) ; Anders Jonhåll, flute and Andreas Sundén, clarinet (track 25).

Notes:

Title from disc label.

Compact disc.

Recorded 2018 March, 2019 April and May Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden.

Program notes and texts of the songs in French and English inserted in container.

Contains:

Container of: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Illuminations.

Container of: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Serenade, tenor, horn, string orchestra, op. 31

Container of: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Nocturnes, tenor, orchestra, op. 60

Serenade.

Nocturne.

OCLC:

1341414462

Publisher Number:

3149020944615

HMM 902267 Harmonia Mundi