Sir Neville Marriner, Jeffrey Tate, Robert Tear, Heather Harper - Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Nocturne, Les Illuminations (2006)

Tracklist:

Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra, Op. 18 (Benjamin Britten)
01. I. fanfare - 00:02:07
02. II. villes - 00:02:30
03. IIIa. phrase - 00:01:07
04. IIIb. antique - 00:02:05
05. IV. royauté - 00:01:40
06. V. marine - 00:00:59
07. VI. interlude - 00:02:14
08. VII. being beauteous - 00:03:59
09. VIII. parade - 00:02:39
10. IX. départ - 00:02:29

Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Op. 31 (Benjamin Britten)
11. Prologue (horn solo) - 00:01:24
12. 1. pastoral: the day's grown old - 00:03:44
13. 2. nocturne: the splendour falls on castle walls - 00:03:28
14. 3. elegy: o rose, thou art sick - 00:04:30
15. 4. dirge: this ae nighte - 00:03:25
16. 5. hymn: queen and huntress - 00:02:02
17. 6. sonnet: o soft embalmer of the still midnight - 00:04:44
18. Epilogue (horn solo) - 00:01:38

Nocturne, Op. 60 for tenor, obbligato instruments and strings (Benjamin Britten)
19. On a poet's lips i slept - 00:03:31
20. Below the thunders of the upper deep - 00:03:29
21. Encinctured with a twine of leaves - 00:02:13
22. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting - 00:02:24
23. But that night when on my bed i lay - 00:03:03
24. She sleeps on soft, last breaths - 00:04:38
25. What is more gentle than a wind in summer? - 00:03:01
26. When most i wink, then do mine eyes best see - 00:05:10

Performers:
Heather Harper (soprano)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra
Sir Neville Marriner
Jeffrey Tate