Britten: Les Illuminations/Serenade/Nocturne

In these three song cycles, Britten draws his inspiration from the peaks of European poetry (Shakespeare, Blake, Shelley, Keats, but also Rimbaud), the better to push back the boundaries of the genre. He multiplies the relationship between voices and instruments, moving from strings alone (Les Illuminations) to a string ensemble featuring obbligato wind instruments, harp and timpani (Nocturne), not forgetting the fascinating dialogue with the horn in the Serenade. A unique sound world is revealed here by artists at the top of their form.

1: Fanfare
2: Villes
3: Phrase
4: Antique
5: Royauté
6: Marine
7: Interlude
8: Being Beauteous
9: Parade
10: Départ
11: Prologue
12: Pastoral
13: Nocturne
14: Elegy
15: Dirge
16: Hymn
17: Sonnet
18: Epilogue
19: On a Poet's Lips I Slept
20: Below the Thunders of the Upper Deep
21: Encinctured With a Twine of Leaves
22: Midnight's Bell Goes Ting, Ting, Ting
23: But That Night When On My Bed I Lay
24: She Sleeps On Soft, Last Breaths
25: What Is More Gentle Than a Wind in Summer?
26: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See

Composer: Benjamin Britten

Conductor: Daniel Harding

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

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