Title from disc label. Compact disc. Program notes and texts of the songs in French and English inserted in container. Andrew Staples, tenor ; Christopher Parkes, horn ; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Daniel Harding, conductor ; featuring Fredrik Ekhdahl, bassoon (track 20) ; Lisa Viguier Vallg�arda, harp (track 21) ; Christopher Parkes, horn (track 22) ; Tomas Nilsson, timpani (track 23) ; Sofi Berner, cor anglais (track 24) ; Anders Jonh�all, flute and Andreas Sun�dn, clarinet (track 25). Recorded 2018 March, 2019 April and May Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden.
Contents:
Les illuminations op. 18 for high voice and string orchestra (1939). Poems by Arthur Rimbaud. I. Fanfare ; II. Villes ; III. a Phrase ; III. b. Antique ; IV. Royau�t ; V. Marine ; VI. Interlude ; VII. Being beauteous ; VIII. Parade ; IX. �Dpart -- Serenade op. 31 for horn, tenor and strings (1943). I. Prologue ; II. Pastoral (Charles Cotton) ; III. Nocturne (Alfred Lord Tennyson) ; IV. Elegy (William Blake) ; V. Dirge (anonymous, XVth century) ; VI. Hymn (Ben Jonson) ; VII. Sonnet (John Keats) ; VIII. Epilogue -- Nocturne op. 60 for tenor, 7 obbligato instruments and strings (1958). 'On a poet's lips I slept' (Percy Bysshe Shelley) ; 'Below the thunders of the upper deep' (Alfred Lord Tennyson) ; 'Encinctured with a twine of leaves' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) ; 'Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting' (Thomas Middleton) ; 'But that night when on my bed I lay' (William Wordsworth) ; 'She sleeps on soft, last breaths' (Wilfred Owen) ; 'What is more gentle than a wind in summer?' (John Keats) ; 'When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see' (William Shakespeare).
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