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Serenade, Les Illuminations, Nocturne

Benjamin Britten

David Pyatt horn
John Mark Ainsley tenor
Britten Sinfonia leader: Pauline Lowbury
Nicholas Cleobury conductor

Les Illuminations Op.18
1. I Fanfare
2. II Villes
3. IIIa Phrase
4. IIIb Antique
5. IV Royauté
6. V Marine
7. VI Interlude
8. VII Being Beauteous
9. VIII Parade
10. IX Départ

Nocturne Op.60
11. On a poet’s lips I slept -
12. Below the thunders of the upper deep -
13. Encinctured with a twine of leaves -
14. Midnight’s bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting-
15. But that night when on my bed I lay -
16. She sleeps on soft, last breaths -
17. What is more gentle than a wind in summer? -
18. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see

Serenade Op.31
19. Prologue
20. 1 Pastoral
21. 2 Nocturne
22. 3 Elegy
23. 4 Dirge
24. 5 Hymn
25. 6 Sonnet
26. Epilogue

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