Benjamin Britten: Winter Words Op. 52/Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22/John Donne Sonnets etc (Naxos Audio CD)

Contents

Winter Words Op. 52:
At Day-close in November
Midnight on the Great Western (or The Journeying Boy)
Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
The little old Table
The Choirmaster's Burial (or The Tenor Man's Story)
Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin)
Before Life and after


Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22:
No 1: Sonetto XVI. Sì come nella penna e nell' inchiostro
No 2: Sonetto XXXI. A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia
No 3: Sonetto XXX. Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume
No 4: Sonetto LV. Tu sa' ch'io so, signor mie, che tu sai
No 5: Sonetto XXXVIII. Rendete a gli occhi miei
No 6: Sonetto XXXII. S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna


The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35:
Oh my blacke Soule!
Batter my heart
O might those sighes and teares
Oh, to vex me
What if this present
Since she whom I loved
At the round earth's imagined corners
Thou hast made me
Death, be not proud


If it's ever Spring again (Hardy)

The Children and Sir Nameless (Hardy)