Britten: The Red Cockatoo and other songs
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Red Cockatoo and other songs
Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Graham Johnson (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 16 May 2005
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'Bostridge is in the royal line of Britten's tenor interpreters ... heard here in a veritable cornucopia of, by and large, unfamiliar, and even unknown songs ... all performed with full understanding and innate beauty' - Gramophone
PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE /CRITICS' CHOICE
'Bostridge is in the royal line of Britten's tenor interpreters ... heard here in a veritable cornucopia of, by and large, unfamiliar, and even unknown songs ... all performed with full understanding and innate beauty' - Gramophone
'Thoughtfully interpreted and beautifully sung … [A] richly satisfying issue' - Gramophone
`Here is a tenor who possesses an exceptionally sweet and beautiful voice, and a fine musician and a thinker too … inspired performances' - The Guardian
Tracks:
Realizations from Harmonia Sacra...
PELHAM HUMFREYS Lord! I have sinned [2'51]
PELHAM HUMFREYS Hymn to God the Father [2'26]
WILLIAM CROFT A Hymn on Divine Musick [5'22]
from Ronald Duncan's This Way to the Tomb ...
Evening [l'41]
Morning [1'05]
Night [1'40]
W H Auden settings ...
Night covers up the rigid land [2'32]
Fish in the Unruffled Lakes [2'47]
To lie flat on the back with the knees flexed [2'20]
THE RED COCKATOO & other songs
A Poison Tree (Blake) [2'52]
When you're feeling like expressing your affection (Auden) [0'42]
Not even summer yet (Burra) [l'41]
The Red Cockatoo (Waley) [0'39]
Wild with passion (Beddoes) [2'23]
If thou wilt ease thine heart (Beddoes) [1'50]
Cradle Song for Eleanor (MacNeice) [3'01]
Birthday Song for Erwin (Duncan) [1'21]
Um Mitternacht (Goethe) [3'33]
THE HOLY SONNETS OF JOHN DONNE, Op 35
Oh my blacke Soule! [3'50]
Batter my heart [1'16]
O might those sighes and teares [3'06]
Oh, to vex me [1'03]
What if this present [2'54]
Since she whom I loved [3'25]
At the round earth's imagined corners [2'40]
Thou hast made me [1'25]
Death, be not proud [3'56]
