BRITTEN: Canticles Nos. 1-5 / The Heart of the Matter (English Song, Vol. 9) Classical Naxos

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BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Canticle I, Op. 40, "My beloved is mine"

7:11

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

Canticle II, Op. 51, "Abraham and Isaac"

16:10

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

BENJAMIN BRITTEN / PETER PEARS

Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn"

Prologue - Fanfare: Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire

2:50

Solo: Frank Lloyd horn

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

Solo: Judi Dench reader

Reading: The earth of my heart was broken and gaped low - Fanfare

1:04

Solo: Frank Lloyd horn

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

Solo: Judi Dench reader

Reading: In the hour when the sapphire of the bone

0:47

Solo: Frank Lloyd horn

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

Solo: Judi Dench reader

Song: We are the darkness in the heat of the day

1:22

Solo: Frank Lloyd horn

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

Solo: Judi Dench reader

Reading: In such a heat of the earth

2:44

Solo: Frank Lloyd horn

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

Solo: Judi Dench reader

Canticle III, Op. 55: Still Falls the Rain

11:31

Solo: Frank Lloyd horn

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

Solo: Judi Dench reader

Reading: I see Christ's wounds weep in the Rose on the wall

1:59

Solo: Frank Lloyd horn

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

Solo: Judi Dench reader

10.

Epilogue - Fanfare: So, out of the dark

2:42

Solo: Frank Lloyd horn

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

Solo: Judi Dench reader

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

11.

Canticle IV, Op. 86, "The Journey of the Magi"

10:50

Solo: Derek Lee Ragin alto counter-tenor

Solo: Gerald Finley baritone

Solo: Steuart Bedford piano

12.

Canticle V, Op. 89, "The Death of Saint Narcissus"

7:39

Solo: Osian Ellis harp

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