Britten: Canticles Nos. 1-5 / the Heart of the Matter (English Song, Vol. 9)

November 1, 2004

Britten: Canticles Nos. 1-5 / the Heart of the Matter (English Song, Vol. 9)

Benjamin Britten
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Tracklist

1Canticle I, Op. 40: My Beloved is mine
[7:19]
2Canticle II, Op. 51: Abraham and Isaac
[16:11]
3Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn" (arr. P. Pears): Prologue - Fanfare: Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire
[2:40]
4Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn" (arr. P. Pears): Reading: The earth of my heart was broken and gaped low - Fanfare
[1:03]
5Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn" (arr. P. Pears): Reading: In the hour when the sapphire of the bone
[0:47]
6Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn" (arr. P. Pears): Song: We are the darkness in the heat of the day
[1:22]
7Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn" (arr. P. Pears): Reading: In such a heat of the earth
[2:47]
8Canticle III, Op. 55: Still Falls the Rain
[11:32]
9Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn" (arr. P. Pears): Reading: I see Christ's wounds weep in the Rose on the wall
[1:55]
10Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn" (arr. P. Pears): Epilogue - Fanfare: So, out of the dark
[2:50]
11Canticle IV, Op. 86: Journey of the Magi
[10:50]
12Canticle V, Op. 89: The Death of Saint Narcissus
[7:30]