Britten: Canticles I – V

The Heart of the Matter (CD)

Composer: Benjamin Britten
Performers:

Derek Lee Ragin
Osian Ellis
Steuart Bedford
Philip Langridge
Gerald Finley

Re-released: January 18, 2005
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Naxos
ASIN: B000675OEO
Originally released: August 1, 1996
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Collins Classics
ASIN: B000003VZM

Track listings

1. Canticle I, Op.40: My Beloved is Mine, for high voice & piano, Op. 40 – Philip Langridge/Steuart Bedford

2. Canticle II, Op.51: Abraham and Issac, for alto, tenor & piano – Jean Rigby/Philip Langridge/Steuart Bedford

3. The Heart Of the Matter: Prologue-Fanfare-Song: Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire…

4. The Heart Of the Matter: Reading-The earth of my heart was broken and gaped low… Fanfare

5. The Heart Of the Matter: Reading-In the hour when the sapphire of the bone…

6. The Heart Of the Matter: Song-We are the darkness in the heat of the day…

7. The Heart Of the Matter: Reading-In such a heat of the earth…

8. Canticle III, Op.55: Still Falls The Rain

9. Canticle III, Op.55: Reading-I see Christ’s wounds weep in the Rose on the…

10. Canticle III, Op.55: Epilogue-Fanfare-So, out of the dark…

11. Canticle IV, Op.86: Journey of the Magi – Derek Lee Ragin/Philip Langridge/Gerald Finley/Steuart Bedford

12. Canticle V, Op.89: The Death of Saint Narcissus – Philip Langridge/Osian Ellis