Ian Bostridge, Graham Johnson - Britten: The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs (1995)

Tracklist

01. Lord! I Have Sinned (Arr. Britten)
02. Hymn to God the Father (Arr. Britten)
03. A Hymn on Divine Musick
04. This Way to the Tomb: I. Evening
05. This Way to the Tomb: II. Morning
06. This Way to the Tomb: III. Night
07. Night Covers Up the Rigid Land
08. Fish in the Unruffled Lakes
09. To Lie Flat on the Back with the Knees Flexed
10. A Poison Tree
11. When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection
12. Not Even Summer Yet
13. The Red Cockatoo
14. Wild with Passion "Song on the Water"
15. If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart "Dirge for Wolfram"
16. Cradle Song for Eleanor
17. Birthday Song for Erwin
18. Um Mitternacht
19. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: No. 1, Oh, My Blacke Soule!
20. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: No. 2, Batter My Heart
21. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: No. 3, Oh Might Those Sighes and Teares
22. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: No. 4, Oh, to Vex Me
23. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: No. 5, What If This Present
24. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: No. 6, Since She Whom I Loved
25. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: No. 7, At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners
26. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: No. 8, Thou Hast Made Me
27. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: No. 9. Death Be Not Proud

Fourteen of the songs on this major release are recorded for the first time. The inspiration for the Holy Sonnets was a harrowing trip paid by Britten and Yehudi Menuhin to Belsen at the end of the war, while the songs from the collection ‘The Red Cockatoo and other songs’ respond to a wide variety of more homely influences.

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