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The heart of the matter ; songs

Britten

EMI Classics, c2001, p1988

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Note

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

Details

  • NCID
    BA69274823
  • Country Code
    xx
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engger
  • Place of Publication
    [S.l.]
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 sound discs
  • Size
    4 3/4 in.
  • Attached Material
    1 pamphlet
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