BENJAMIN BRITTEN Sacred and Profane. Hymn to St. Cecilia. Avec des œuvres chorales de Delius, Elgar, Vaughan Williams RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed

Programme

BENJAMIN BRITTEN [1913-1976] Sacred and Profane (1974-1975) Eight Medieval Lyrics op.91 for unaccompanied voices · St. Godric's Hymn (1'41) · I mon waxe wod (0'40) · Lenten is come (2'19) · The long night (1'32) · Yif ic of luve can (2'42) · Carol (1'54) · Ye that pasen by (1'52) · A death (3'03) SIR EDWARD ELGAR [1857-1934] Part-Songs · Go, song of mine, op.57 (Guido Cavalcanti, 1250-1301) (5'23) · There is sweet music, op.53 no.1 (Tennyson) (4'34) · Love's tempest, op.73 no.1 (adapted from the russian of Maikov by Rosa Newmarch) (3'25) RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS [1872-1958] Three Shakespeare Songs (1951) · Full Fathom Five (The Tempest, Act I, Sc. 2) (3'24) · The Cloud-Capp'd Towers (The Tempest, Act IV, Sc.1) (2'22) · Over Hill, Over Dale (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Sc. 1) (1'04) BENJAMIN BRITTEN [1913-1976] · Hymn to St. Cecilia, op.27 (W. H. Auden) (11'24) FREDERICK DELIUS [1862-1934] Two Unaccompanied Part Songs (1917) To be sung of a summer night on the water · I. Slow but not dragging (2'23) · II. Gaily but not quick (1'57) CHARLES VILLIERS STANDFORD [1852-1924] · The Blue Bird, op.119 no.3 (Mary E. Coleridge) (3'50)