BENJAMIN BRITTEN Les Illuminations. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings. Nocturne Andrew Staples, Christopher Parkes, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding

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BENJAMIN BRITTEN [1913-1976] Les Illuminations op. 18 for high voice and string orchestra (1939). Poems by Arthur Rimbaud · I. Fanfare (2'04) · II. Villes (2'28) · III a. Phrase (1'05) · III b. Antique (2'15) · IV. Royauté (1'32) · V. Marine (0'58) · VI. Interlude (2'49) · VII. Being Beauteous (4'05) · VIII. Parade (2'43) · IX. Départ (2'47) Serenade op. 31 for horn, tenor and strings (1943) · I. Prologue (1'22) · II. Pastoral (Charles Cotton) (3'05) · III. Nocturne (Alfred Lord Tennyson) (3'39) · IV. Elegy (William Blake) (4'25) · V. Dirge (anonymous, XVth century) (3'22) · VI. Hymn (Ben Jonson) (2'03) · VII. Sonnet (John Keats) (4'02) · VIII. Epilogue (1'31) Nocturne op. 60 for tenor, 7 obbligato instruments and strings (1958) · 'On a poet's lips I slept' (Percy Bysshe Shelley) (3'10) · 'Below the thunders of the upper deep' (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Fredrik Ekdahl, bassoon (3'24) · 'Encinctured with a twine of leaves' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Lisa Viguier Vallgårda, harp (2'40) · 'Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting' (Thomas Middleton) Chris Parkes, horn (2'24) · 'But that night when on my bed I lay' (William Wordsworth) Tomas Nilsson, timpani (3'01) · 'She sleeps on soft, last breaths' (Wilfred Owen) Sofi Berner, cor anglais (4'28) · 'What is more gentle than a wind in summer?' (John Keats) Anders Jonhäll, flute Andreas Sundén, clarinet (3'57) · 'When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see' (William Shakespeare) (4'39)