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Label: Warner Classics
Series: British Composers
Catalogue number: 5739832
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Genres:
- Overtures,
- Choral,
- Piano Concertos,
- Songs,
- Orchestral

Contents and tracklist

Britten: An American Overture

Work length10:35

This work is only available as an album download.

Britten: Ballad of Heroes, Op. 14

Work length16:18

1. Funeral March -

Track length5:39

2. Scherzo (Dance of Death)

Track length4:23

3. Recitative and Choral - Epilogue (Funeral March)

Track length6:16

Britten: Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 21

Work length23:24

Theme -

Track length1:18

Var.I Recitative -

Track length1:38

Var.II Romance -

Track length1:20

Var.III March -

Track length1:14

Var.IV Arabesque

Track length1:50

Var.V Chant -

Track length1:47

Var.VI Nocturne -

Track length2:00

Var.VII Badinerie

Track length1:20

Var.VIII Burlesque

Track length1:36

Var.IX Toccata I - Toccata II -

Track length2:48

Var.X Adagio

Track length4:00

Var.XI Tarantella

Track length2:33

Britten: The Building of the House Overture

Work length5:02

Britten: Praise We Great Men

Work length7:08

Alison Hargan (soprano), Mary King (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle

'Praise we great men' -

Track length3:26

'Praise we the just'

Track length2:22

[Coda]

Track length1:20

Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes

Work length14:45

'A time there was...' Op.90: I. Cakes and Ale

Track length2:32

'A time there was...' Op.90: II. The Bitter Withy

Track length2:56

'A time there was...' Op.90: III. Hankin Booby

Track length2:30

'A time there was...' Op.90: IV. Hunt the Squirrel

Track length1:18

'A time there was...' Op.90: V. Lord Melbourne

Track length5:29

Britten: Canadian Carnival, Op.19

Work length14:08

This work is only available as an album download.

Britten: Young Apollo, Op. 16

Work length7:37

Felix Kok (violin), Jeremy Ballard (violin), Michal Kaznowski (cello), Peter Cole (viola), Peter Donohoe (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle

Britten: Quatre Chansons françaises (1928)

Work length12:39

1. Nuits de juin (wds. Victor Hugo)

Track length2:49

2. Sagesse (wds. Paul Verlaine)

Track length2:49

3. L'Enfance (wds. Victor Hugo)

Track length4:31

4. Chanson d'automne (wds. Paul Verlaine)

Track length2:30

Britten: Scottish Ballad, Op. 26

Work length15:23

This work is only available as an album download.

Britten: Occasional Overture, Op. 38

Work length7:18

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20

Work length20:27

I. Lacrymosa (Andante ben misurato) -

Track length8:38

II. Dies irae (Allegro con fuoco) -

Track length5:22

III. Requiem aeternam (Andante molto tranquillo)

Track length6:27

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