The Complete Orchestral Song-Cycles

Benjamin Britten; Philip Langridge, Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Frank Lloyd, English Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford · Album

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  1. Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): Nuits de Juin
  2. Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): Sagesse
  3. Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): L'Enfance
  4. Quatre Chansons Françaises, op. posth. (1928): Chanson d'Automne
  5. Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Prologue
  6. Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Rats Away!
  7. Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Messalina
  8. Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge)
  9. Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8 (1936): Epilogue and Funeral March
  10. Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): I Fanfare
  11. Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): II Villes
  12. Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IIIa Phrase
  13. Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IIIb Antique
  14. Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IV Royauté
  15. Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): V Marine
  16. Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): VI Interlude
  17. Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): VII Being Beauteous
  18. Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): VIII Parade
  19. Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939): IX Départ
  20. Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Prologue
  21. Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Pastoral
  22. Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Nocturne
  23. Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Elegy
  24. Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Dirge
  25. Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Hymn
  26. Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Sonnet
  27. Serenade, op. 31 (1943): Epilogue (Off Stage)
  28. Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): On a poet's lips I slept...
  29. Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): Below the thunders of the upper deep...
  30. Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): Encinctured with a twine of leaves...
  31. Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting...
  32. Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): But that night when on my bed I lay...
  33. Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): She sleeps on soft, last breaths, but no ghost looms...
  34. Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): What is more gentle than a wind in summer...
  35. Nocturne, op. 60 (1958): When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see...
  36. Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Prologue 'In May, in brilliant Athens...'
  37. Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): My lost and dazzled eyes...
  38. Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Venus resigned her altar to my new Lord...
  39. Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Phaedra in all her nadness stands before you
  40. Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): The wife of Theseus loves Hippolytus...
  41. Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Oh Gods of wrath...
  42. Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Death to the unhappy no catastrophe...
  43. Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): My time's too short, your highness...
  44. Phaedra, op. 93 (1975): Chills already dart along my boiling veins...

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