Offer,Britten: Serenade, Nocturne and Phaedra
Philip Langridge (tenor), Frank Lloyd (horn), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford
Langridge adopts an appropriately ghostly voice for the Dirge - dramatic and dark...The English Chamber Orchestra, who have been brilliant throughout, really show their colours in the Sonnet,... — More…
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Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31
Work length23:00
- Philip Langridge (tenor), Frank Lloyd (horn)
- English Chamber Orchestra
- Steuart Bedford
- Recorded: July 1994
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London / St. Nicholas, Newcastle
Prologue
Track length1:20
Pastoral
Track length3:13
Nocturne
Track length3:35
Britten: Nocturne, Op. 60 for tenor, obbligato instruments and strings
Work length26:29
- Philip Langridge (tenor)
- Northern Sinfonia
- Steuart Bedford
- Recorded: July 1994
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London / St. Nicholas, Newcastle
On a poet's lips I slept
Track length3:09
Below the thunders of the upper deep
Track length2:56
Encintured with a twine of leaves
Track length2:48
Britten: Phaedra, Op. 93
Work length14:45
- Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
- English Chamber Orchestra
- Steuart Bedford
- Recorded: July 1994
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London / St. Nicholas, Newcastle
Prologue - In May, in brilliant Athens
Track length1:24
My lost and dazzled eyes
Track length1:01
Venus resigned her altar to my new Lord
Track length0:42
