Thomas Beecham - Haydn: The Seasons (The Beecham Collection) (2014)

Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Spring: Overture
02. Spring: Recitative: O see where cruel Winter (Simon)
03. Spring: Come, gentle Spring! (Chorus)
04. Spring: Recitative: From Aries rolls at last (Simon)
05. Spring: Air: Now fairly runs the farmer's boy (Simon)
06. Spring: Recitative: The farmer has his work acheived (Lukas)
07. Spring: Be now gracious, smiling heaven! (Nancy, Lukas, Simon, Chorus)
08. Spring: Recitative: Now heard are all our prayers (Nancy)
09. Spring: O how lovely gleams (Nancy, Lukas, Simon, Chorus)
10. Spring: Ageless! Powerful! Bountiful God! (Chorus, Nancy, Lukas, Simon)
11. Summer: Recitative: In dove-grey mantle (Lukas)
12. Summer: Air: The lively swain is gathering (Nancy)
13. Summer: Recitative: The rosy morning now breaks forth (Nancy)
14. Summer: He's mounting up, the Sun (Lukas, Nancy, Simon, Chorus)
15. Summer: Recitative: Now all are a stir (Simon)
16. Summer: Recitative: The midday sun is burning now (Lukas)
17. Summer: Cavatina: Oppress'd succumbs all Nature now (Lukas)
18. Summer: Recitative: Oh welcome now, you shadier grove (Nancy)
19. Summer: Air: So reviving to the senses (Nancy)
20. Summer: Recitative: Oh see! Now rising in the sultry air (Simon)
21. Summer: Hark the tempset drawing nigh! (Chorus)
22. Summer: The gloomy clouds now part aside (Lukas, Nancy, Simon, Chorus)

CD2:

01. Autumn: Overture
02. Autumn: Recitative: All that through her blossom (Nancy)
03. Autumn: So Nature gives reward to Zeal (Lukas, Nancy, Simon, Chorus)
04. Autumn: Recitative: Now see! To hazel bushes (Nancy)
05. Autumn: Duet: You beauties of the town (Lukas)
06. Autumn: Now see, on new-stripp'd harvest field (Simon)
07. Autumn: Air: There look across the open fields! (Simon)
08. Autumn: Recitative: Here beaters, closing in (Lukas)
09. Autumn: Hark! Hear the clamorous noise (Chorus)
10. Autumn: Recitative: On all the vines are glist'ning (Nancy)
11. Autumn: Cheer now! (Chorus)
12. Winter: Introduction
13. Winter: Recitative: Now sinks the pale declining year (Simon)
14. Winter: Cavatina: Light and life are both enfeeled (Nancy)
15. Winter: Recitative: All fetter'd lies the open lake (Lukas)
16. Winter: Aria: Here stands the wand'rer now (Lukas)
17. Winter: Recitative: As his approach rings in his ear (Lukas)
18. Winter: Purring, whirring, purring (Nancy, Chorus)
19. Winter: Recitative: The flax has now been spun (Lukas)
20. Winter: Song and Chorus: A maid who kept her honour fair (Chorus)
21. Winter: Recitative: From barren East noe thrust (Simon)
22. Winter: Before thee here (Simon)
23. Winter: Recitative: Remains, alone (Simon)
24. Winter: Trio and Finale: Then breaks the glorious day (Simon, Lukas, Chorus, Nancy)