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Benjamin Britten: Song Cycles, Sinfonia da Requiem, Four Sea Interludes by Various Artists

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• Artist:Various Artists
• Media:Audio CD
• Label: EMI
• Released: 06 July 2009
• Barcode: 5099969557927
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• • I. Fanfare
  • II. Villes
  • IIIa. Phrase
  • IIIb. Antique
  • IV. Royauté
  • V. Marine
  • VI. Interlude
  • VII. Being Beauteous
  • VIII. Parade
  • IX. Départ
  • Prologue (horn solo)
  • 1. Pastoral: The day's grown old (Charles Cotton)
  • 2. Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
  • 3. Elegy: O Rose, thou art sick (William Blake)
  • 4. Dirge: This ae nighte (anon. 15th century)
  • 5. Hymn: Queen and huntress (Ben Jonson)
  • 6. Sonnet: O soft embalmer of the still midnight (John Keats)
  • Epilogue (horn solo)
  • On a poet's lips I slept (Shelley)
  • Below the thunders of the upper deep (Tennyson) (Robin O'Neill, bassoon)
  • Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Coleridge) (Thelma Owen, harp)
  • Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting (Middleton) (Frank Lloyd, french horn)
  • But that night when on my bed I lay (Wordsworth) (David Corkhill, timpani)
  • She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Owen) (James Brown, cor anglais)
  • What is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Keats) (William Bennett, flute; Thea King, clarinet)
  • When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Shakespeare)
  • First movement: Boisterous Bourrée
  • Second movement: Playful Pizzicato
  • Third movement: Sentimental Sarabande
  • Fourth movement: Frolicsome Finale
  • I. Lacrymosa (Andante ben misurato) -
  • II. Dies irae (Allegro con fuoco) -
  • III. Requiem aeternam (Andante molto tranquillo)
  • Dawn
  • Sunday Morning
  • Moonlight
  • Storm
  • Theme: Allegro maestoso e largamente (full orchestra - woodwind - brass - strings - percussion - full orchestra)
  • Variation A: Presto (flutes & piccolo)
  • Variation B: Lento (oboes)
  • Variation C: Moderato (clarinets)
  • Variation D: Allegro con marcia (bassoons)
  • Variation E: Brillante, alla polacca (violins)
  • Variation F: Meno mosso (violas)
  • Variation G: L'istesso tempo (cellos)
  • Variation H: Cominciando lento ma poco a poco accel. al Allegro (double basses)
  • Variation I: Maestoso (harp)
  • Variation J: L'istesso tempo (horns)
  • Variation K: Vivace (trumpets)
  • Variation L: Allegro pomposo (trombones & tuba)
  • Percussion - Variation M: Moderato (percussion)
  • Fugue: Allegro molto - Con slancio (L'istesso tempo) (full orchestra)