Britten Choral Works III: Fen and Meadow

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Choral Dances from 'Gloriana'

11:52

1

The Masque begins

0:53

2

First Dance: Time

1:43

3

Second Dance: Concord

2:39

4

Third Dance: Time and Concord

1:48

5

Fourth Dance: Country Girls

1:14

6

Fifth Dance: Rustics and Fishermen

1:19

7

Sixth Dance: Final Dance of Homage

2:16

Ian Partridge tenor

8

Advance Democracy

3:15

9

The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard

8:28

10

A Wedding Anthem

8:59

Ruth Dean soprano

Neil MacKenzie tenor

Five Flower Songs

10:29

11

To Daffodils

1:50

12

The Succession of the Four Sweet Months

2:06

13

Marsh Flowers

1:56

14

The Evening Primrose

2:44

15

Ballad of Green Broom

1:53

Sacred and Profane

15:49

16

St Godric's Hymn

1:34

17

I mon waxe wod

0:38

18

Lenten is come

2:43

19

The long night

1:19

20

Yif ic of love can

2:38

21

Carol

1:36

22

Ye that pasen by

2:18

23

A death

3:03

Harry Christophers

January 1991

September 1992