Benjamin Britten: Winter Words Op52

This album contains 8 songs by Benjamin Britten using the lyrics and ballads of Thomas Hardy for high voice and piano. It also includes the first publication of two further Hardy settings. Titles are: At Day Close In November, Midnight On The Great Western, Wagtail and Baby, The Little Old Table, The Choirmaster's Burial, Proud Songsters, At The Railway Station and Before Life And After. The two additional songs are: If It's Ever Spring Again and The Children And Sir Nameless.