The heart of the matter ; songs
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The heart of the matter ; songs
EMI Classics, c2001, p1988
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Sung in English (disc 1 and disc 2: 1st-3rd and 6th-8th works) and German (disc 2: 4th-5th)
Recorded in No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 27 May and 18 July 1986 (disc 1); The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 9 & 10 May 1988 (disc 2)
Compact discs
Texts in German with English translation
EMI Classics: 0777 7 49257 2 3
EMI Classics: 0777 7 49480 2 9
EMI Classics: 7243 5 74346 2 1
EMI Classics: 5 74346 2
EMI Classics: ZDZB 74346
EMI Classics: PM 518
Neil Mackie, tenor ; Peter Pears, speaker (disc 1: 1st work) ; Boys of the Choir of Paisley Abbey ; Barry Tuckwell, horn (disc 1: 1st. disc 2: 2nd) ; Roger Vignoles (disc 1), Steuart Bedford (disc 2: 6th), pianos ; Scottish Chamber Orchestra (disc 2)
Contents of Works
- disc 1. The heart of the matter : a sequence of music with words by Edith Sitwell
- Two songs by Thomas Hardy. The children and Sir Nameless
- If it's ever spring again
- Three early songs. Beware!
- O that I had ne'er been married
- Epitaph: The clerk
- Not even summer yet
- Two songs by W.H. Auden. To lie flat on the back
- Night covers up the rigid land
- The Oxen (Christmas eve, and twelve of the clock) / arr. Pears
- Three rhymes by William Soutar. Dawtie's devotion
- Tradition
- The gully
- Three realizations of Henry Purcell. I'll sail upon the Dog-star (Z 571.6)
- The knotting song (Z 371)
- Man is for the woman made (Z 605.3)
- disc 2. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op. 31
- Now sleeps the crimson petal / orch. Colin Matthews
- Suite of songs from "Orpheus Britannicus" (Purcell realized and orch. Britten)
- Die Forelle : D 550 / Schubert ; orch. Britten
- Frühlingsnacht (no. 12 of Liederkreis op. 39) / Schumann ; orch. Britten)
- Rossini suite / arr. Britten
- The Bonny Eral o' Moray : Scottish tune / arr. Britten
- Oliver Cromwell : nursery rhyme from Suffolk / arr. Britten
