5060216343150

Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations; Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer Of 1915

Julia Kogan; Britten Sinfonia; Steven Lloyd-Gonzalez

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Format: CD

Cat No: FHR150

PRE-ORDER: This item will be shipped with the aim to deliver on release day.

Release Date:  14 November 2025

Label:  First Hand Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060216343150

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  Benjamin Britten

  • Description

    Featuring the first recording of BRITTEN's Les Illuminations, Op. 18 sung in English, from a brand new translation by Timothy Ades. Also includes the original French version. Coupled with Samuel BARBER's dramatic masterpiece Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24, written just a few years after Les Illuminations.Among the most personal and powerful music ever written for the human voice, Britten and Barber's masterpiece settings of texts by Rimbaud and Agee continue to resonate intensely.Taken together, they form bookends to the cataclysms of the 20th century, with its two life-shattering world wars. The colours, verbal and harmonic, of such human drama are a dazzling mix, running the gamut of life in dramatic flux. Mild mannered it is not, though parts are hauntingly beautiful. Performed by award-winning American-French opera singer Julia Kogan, The Britten Sinfonia is conducted by Steven Lloyd-Gonzalez.

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