Britten: Saint Nicolas & Hymn To Saint Cecilia

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. 1: Introduction 'Our Eyes Are Blinded By the Holiness Your Bear'
• 2. 2: The Birth of Nicolas 'Nicolas Was Born in Answer to Prayer'
• 3. 3: Nicolas Devotes Himself to God 'My Parents Died All to Soon I Left the Tranquil Beauty of Their H
• 4. 4: He Journeys to Palestine 'Nicolas Sailed for Palestine Across the Sunlit Seas'
• 5. 5: Nicolas Comes to Myra and Is Chosen Bishop 'Come, Stranger Sent from God!'
• 6. 6: Nicolas from Prison 'Persecution Sprang Upon Our Church'
• 7. 7: Nicolas and the Pickled Boys 'Famine Tracks Us Down the Lanes'
• 8. 8: His Piety and Marvellous Works 'For Forty Years Our Nicolas'
• 9. 9: The Death of Nicolas 'Death, I Hear Thy Summons and I Come in Haste'
• 10. Hymn to Saint Cecilia, Op 27 'In a Garden Shady This Holy Lady'