Sir Michael Tippett - Songs (Hyperion Audio CD)

Hyperion Purcell CD Tippett: Songs

Andrew Ball (piano), Martyn Hill (tenor), Craig Ogden (guitar)

CDA66749

Limited availability

Recording details: May 1994
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: February 1995
Total duration: 72 minutes 3 seconds

Track listing CD1 1
Music (Tippett) 'I pant for the music which is divine' 3:32
2
If music be the food of love, Z379a (Purcell/Tippett) 2:05

Songs for Ariel (Tippett)
3 No 1: Come unto these yellow sands 1:57
4 No 2: Full fathom five 1:34
5 No 3: Where the bee sucks 1:05

The Fairy Queen, Z629 (Purcell/Tippett)
6 Act 5: An Epithalamium (Wedding Song) 'Thrice happy lovers, may you be for ever free' 2:46
7
The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 (Purcell/Tippett) 4:00

Songs for Achilles (Tippett)
8 No 1: In the tent 'O rich-soiled land, O land of Phthia' 5:20
9 No 2: Across the plain 'Patroclus whirls there across the plain' 3:37
10 No 3: By the sea 'Ah! Thetis, mother, goddess, why come from the sea?' 6:37
11
Mad Bess, Z370 (Purcell/Tippett) 'From silent shades and the Elysian groves' 4:39
12
Boyhood's End (Tippett) 'What, then, did I want?' 12:57

Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585 (Purcell/Tippett)
13 Act II: Sweeter than roses 3:39

The Heart's Assurance (Tippett/Lewis)
14 No 1: Song 'Oh journey-man, before this endless belt began' 2:59

The Heart's Assurance (Tippett/Keyes)
15 No 2: The heart's assurance 'O never trust the heart's assurance' 2:11

The Heart's Assurance (Tippett/Lewis)
16 No 3: Compassion 'She in the hurling night with lucid simple hands' 4:34
17 No 4: The Dancer 'He's in his grave and on his head' 2:13

The Heart's Assurance (Tippett/Keyes)
18 No 5: Remember your lovers 'Young men walking the open streets' 6:18