Britten - Complete Songs Vol.1
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Label: Onyx
Cat No: ONYX4071
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 3rd May 2011
Contents
Works
A dirgeBeware!
Cabaret Songs (4)
Canticle I: My beloved is mine, op.40
Fish in the unruffled lakes
Lilian
Lucy
Prithee
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op.35
The Poet's Echo, op.76
The joy of grief
Tit for Tat
Um Mitternacht
Virtue in deeds, not words
Winter Words, op.52
Artists
Caryl HughesAndrew Tortise
James Greer
Ben Johnson
Katherine Broderick
Nicky Spence
Robin Tritschler
Philip Smith
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Works
A dirgeBeware!
Cabaret Songs (4)
Canticle I: My beloved is mine, op.40
Fish in the unruffled lakes
Lilian
Lucy
Prithee
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op.35
The Poet's Echo, op.76
The joy of grief
Tit for Tat
Um Mitternacht
Virtue in deeds, not words
Winter Words, op.52
Artists
Caryl HughesAndrew Tortise
James Greer
Ben Johnson
Katherine Broderick
Nicky Spence
Robin Tritschler
Philip Smith
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
About
The earliest songs date from 1922, when Britten was just nine years old – ‘Beware!’ and two other songs from this period were reassessed by the composer in 1968, but not published until 1985. These rarities display little of the mature composer’s style, but they are confident and charming settings. The touching ‘Lilian’ and ‘The Joy of Grief’ are also early songs and receive their premiere recordings here. Mature Britten is represented by the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Winter Words and the 1965 cycle The Poet’s Echo.
This survey of all Britten’s songs for voice and piano is a major project, and Malcolm Martineau has assembled some of the finest young singers of our time for this fascinating journey through repertoire that spans the period 1922–1971.
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