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Britten: Serenade, Nocturne and Phaedra
Philip Langridge (tenor), Frank Lloyd (horn), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
Langridge adopts an appropriately ghostly voice for the Dirge - dramatic and dark...The English Chamber Orchestra, who have been brilliant throughout, really show their colours in the Sonnet,...
Britten: Serenade, Nocturne and Phaedra
Philip Langridge (tenor), Frank Lloyd (horn), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford
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Awards:
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
Langridge adopts an appropriately ghostly voice for the Dirge - dramatic and dark...The English Chamber Orchestra, who have been brilliant throughout, really show their colours in the Sonnet,...
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Contents and tracklist
Work length23:00
- Philip Langridge (tenor), Frank Lloyd (horn)
- English Chamber Orchestra
- Steuart Bedford
- Recorded: July 1994
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London / St. Nicholas, Newcastle
Prologue
Track length1:20
Pastoral
Track length3:13
Nocturne
Track length3:35
Elegy
Track length4:09
Dirge
Track length3:21
Hymn
Track length2:00
Sonnet
Track length3:43
Epilogue (off stage)
Track length1:39
Work length26:29
- Philip Langridge (tenor)
- Northern Sinfonia
- Steuart Bedford
- Recorded: July 1994
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London / St. Nicholas, Newcastle
On a poet's lips I slept
Track length3:09
Below the thunders of the upper deep
Track length2:56
Encintured with a twine of leaves
Track length2:48
Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting
Track length2:30
But that night when on my bed I lay
Track length2:55
She sleeps on soft, last breaths; but no ghost looms
Track length4:08
What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
Track length3:41
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
Track length4:22
Work length14:45
- Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
- English Chamber Orchestra
- Steuart Bedford
- Recorded: July 1994
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London / St. Nicholas, Newcastle
Prologue - In May, in brilliant Athens
Track length1:24
My lost and dazzled eyes
Track length1:01
Venus resigned her altar to my new Lord
Track length0:42
Phaedra in all her madness stands before you
Track length1:41
The wife of Theseus loves Hippolytus
Track length1:27
Oh Gods of wrath
Track length2:26
Death to the unhappy's no catastrophe
Track length1:45
My time's too short, your highness
Track length1:41
Chills already dart along my boiling veins
Track length2:38
Awards and reviews
Langridge adopts an appropriately ghostly voice for the Dirge - dramatic and dark...The English Chamber Orchestra, who have been brilliant throughout, really show their colours in the Sonnet, creating a beautifully translucent sound, while Langridge is aptly dramatic. Frank Lloyd is mysterious, unrushed and moving in the Epilogue and has the edge on his competitors
