Benjamin Britten: Canticles Nos. 1-6 (Audio CD)

BRITTEN CD Britten's five Canticles are marvellously vivid, intensely dramatic works. Although they were not designed to be performed together - they span virtually his whole career, from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s, & were composed for a variety of forces & singers - they form a remarkably effective sequence. Each is in some way inspired by religion & takes the form of an extended song, scena, miniature cantata, mini opera.