"Before life and after" / Songs & cycles : Winter Words op.52, The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
Mark Padmore, Roger Vignoles
1h12
Digital
HMU907443
Excerpt:
It was on returning from a tour of the German concentration camps with Yehudi Menuhin, in 1945, that Britten finally realised his long-cherished project of setting to music the spiritual sonnets of John Donne (1572-1631). He succeeded admirably in conveying their skilful blend of passion and intellectual rigour.
BENJAMIN BRITTEN [1913-1976] The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op.35 (1945) · 1. Oh my blacke Soule! (3'22) · 2. Batter my heart (1'34) · 3. O might those sighes and teares (3'15) · 4. Oh, to vex me (1'15) · 5. What if this present (3'16) · 6. Since she whom I loved (3'29) · 7. At the round earth's imagined corners (2'42) · 8. Thou hast made me (1'39) · 9. Death, be not proud (4'13) · A Morning Hymn (Henry Purcell) (3'11) · Job's Curse (Henry Purcell) (5'20) · An Evening Hymn (Henry Purcell) (4'25) Winter Words, op.52 (1953) · At Day-close in November (1'47) · Midnight on the Great Western (4'44) · Wagtail and Baby (2'18) · The little old Table (1'28) · The Choirmaster's Burial (4'02) · Proud Songsters (1'14) · At the Railway Station, Upway (3'00) · Before Life and after (3'14) · I Wonder as I Wander (folksong) (3'28) · Sail on, sail on (folksong) (2'28) · The Miller of Dee (folksong) (2'11) · At the mid hour of night (folksong) (2'38) · There's none to soothe (folksong) (1'51)
