The Canticles

Ben Johnson / James Baillieu / Christopher Ainslie / Benedict Nelson / Martin Owen / Lucy Wakeford

Label: Signum Classics
Catalogusnummer: SIGCD 317
EAN / barcode: 0635212031728
Verschijningsdatum: 31 januari 2013

As part of the celebration Britten's Centenery in 2013, this new recording presents Britten's five Canticles, performed by tenor Ben Johnson with James Baillieu accompanying. Ben Johnson describes his attraction to these works in his self-penned notes for the record: "Each is deep with meaning or subversion, a trademark of Britten’s music to a modern audience. In their very performance they glide through such variety of style that it makes them wonderfully difficult to categorise. They are song, opera, cantata and chamber music, and so they correspond with the most delicate of intimacy and to the most effective of grand gesture … In his biography of Britten, Humphrey Carpenter points out the close links between the Canticles and Britten’s operas. This answers in part their difference from the ‘usual’ song repertoire: their religious flavour (a stronger taste in some than others) mixed with the circumstances of their composition make for a unique strand in Britten’s output."

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Tracklist

01 Britten: Canticle I, Op. 40 "My Beloved Is Mine" 07:54
02 Britten: Canticle II, Op. 51 "Abraham and Isaac" 17:04
03 Britten: Canticle III, Op. 55 "Still Falls the Rain" 11:39
04 Britten: Canticle IV, Op. 86 "The Journey of the Magi" 12:17
05 Britten: Canticle V, Op. 89 "The Death of St Narcissus" 07:50
06 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Book 3 "British Isles": No. 1, The Plough Boy 01:50
07 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Book 1 "British Isles": No. 1, The Salley Gardens 02:41
08 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Book 3 "British Isles": No. 5, The Foggy, Foggy Dew 02:41
09 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Book 3 "British Isles": No. 2, There's None to Soothe 01:48
10 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Book 3 "British Isles": No. 6, O Waly, Waly 04:38
11 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Book 1 "British Isles": No. 6, The Ash Grove 03:01
12 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Book 8: No. 4, Greensleeves 02:18

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