034571168234

Britten: The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs

Ian Bostridge, Graham Johnson

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA66823

Release Date:  01 October 1995

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571168234

Genres:  Classical  Vocal  

  • Description

    Fourteen of the songs on this major release are recorded for the first time. The inspiration for the Holy Sonnets was a harrowing trip paid by Britten and Yehudi Menuhin to Belsen at the end of the war, while the songs from the collection ‘The Red Cockatoo and other songs’ respond to a wide variety of more homely influences.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Harmonia Sacra: Pelham Humfreys: Lord! I Have Sinned
      • 2. Harmonia Sacra: Pelham Humfreys: Hymn To God The Father
      • 3. Harmonia Sacra: William Croft: A Hymn On Divine Musick
      • 4. The Way To The Tomb...: Evening
      • 5. The Way To The Tomb...: Morning
      • 6. The Way To The Tomb...: Night
      • 7. W H Auden Settings: Night Covers Up The Rigid Land
      • 8. W H Auden Settings: Fish In The Unruffled Lakes
      • 9. W H Auden Settings: To Lie Flat On The Back With The Knees Flexed
      • 10. The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs: A Poison Tree (Blake)
      • 11. The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs: When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection (Auden)
      • 12. The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs: Not Even Summer Yet (Burra)
      • 13. The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs: The Red Cockatoo (Waley)
      • 14. The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs: Wild With Passion (Beddoes)
      • 15. The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs: If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart (Beddoes)
      • 16. The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs: Cradle Song For Eleanor (MacNeice)
      • 17. The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs: Birthday Song For Erwin (Duncan)
      • 18. The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs: Um Mitternacht (Goethe)
      • 19. The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Oh My Black Soule!
      • 20. The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Batter My Heart
      • 21. The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: O Might Those Sighes And Teares
      • 22. The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Oh, To Vex Me
      • 23. The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: What If This Present
      • 24. The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Since She Whom I Loved
      • 25. The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners
      • 26. The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Thou Hast Made Me
      • 27. The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Death, Be Not Proud