[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 22 June 2001
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'Wonderful performances of two of Britten's finest song cycles, consistently beautiful in vocal quality, and almost miraculous in their integration of clear expressive diction. Deserves a place in every collection'
(BBC Music Magazine)
'English vocal intelligence at its best, accompanied with utmost orchestral colouring by Graham Johnson' (The Independent on Sunday)
This disc contains a collection of Britten's finest songs. In addition to his Hardy cycle Winter Words are the Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo and the First Canticle 'Still falls the rain'.
Winter Words, Op 52
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op 22
Canticle 1 "My beloved is mine', Op 40
Folksong arrangements:
O Waly Waly
Little Sir William
The Salley Gardens
The trees they grow so high