Britten: Serenade, Nocturne & Les Illuminations

1. 1
   Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): I. Fanfare
   2:07
2. 2
   Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): II. Villes
   2:30
3. 3
   Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): IIIa. Phrase
   1:07
4. 4
   Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): IIIb. Antique
   2:05
5. 5
   Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): IV. Royauté
   1:40
6. 6
   Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): V. Marine
   0:59
7. 7
   Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): VI. Interlude
   2:14
8. 8
   Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): VII. Being Beauteous
   3:59
9. 9
   Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): VIII. Parade
   2:39
10. 10
    Les Illuminations for high voice and string orchestra Op. 18 (1971 Digital Remaster): IX. Départ
    2:29
11. 11
    Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): Prologue (horn solo)
    1:24
12. 12
    Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 1. Pastoral: The day's grown old (Charles Cotton)
    3:44
13. 13
    Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 2. Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
    3:28
14. 14
    Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 3. Elegy: O Rose, thou art sick (William Blake)
    4:30
15. 15
    Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 4. Dirge: This ae nighte (anon. 15th century)
    3:25
16. 16
    Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 5. Hymn: Queen and huntress (Ben Jonson)
    2:02
17. 17
    Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): 6. Sonnet: O soft embalmer of the still midnight (John Keats) [horn tacet]
    4:44
18. 18
    Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 (1971 Digital Remaster): Epilogue (horn solo)
    1:38
19. 19
    Nocturne, Op. 60: No. 1, On a Poet's Lips I Slept
    3:31
20. 20
    Nocturne, Op. 60: No. 2, The Kraken
    3:29
21. 21
    Nocturne, Op. 60: No. 3, Encinctured with a Twine of Leaves
    2:13
22. 22
    Nocturne, Op. 60: No. 4, Midnight's Bell
    2:24
23. 23
    Nocturne, Op. 60: No. 5, But That Night When on My Bed I Lay
    3:03
24. 24
    Nocturne, Op. 60: No. 6, The Kind Ghosts
    4:38
25. 25
    Nocturne, Op. 60: No. 7, Sleep and Poetry
    3:01
26. 26
    Nocturne, Op. 60: No. 8, Sonnet LXIII
    5:10

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