Research Catalog

Title

Canticles ; The heart of the matter / Benjamin Britten.

Author

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.

Publication

[Ringmer, East Sussex, England] : Stone Records, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964
• Norman, Daniel, 1970-
• Gould, Chris (Pianist)
• Maclean, Benjamin.
• Towers, William.
• Walter, Harriet
• Watkins, Richard (Horn player)
• Webb, Hugh (Harpist)

Description

1 audio disc (68 min., 46 sec.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Oxford Lieder live

Uniform Title

• Vocal music. Selections
• Oxford Lieder live.

Alternative Title

Vocal music.

Subject

• Songs (High voice) with piano
• Vocal duets with piano
• Sacred vocal duets with piano
• Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble
• Monologues with music (Voice with instrumental ensemble)
• Vocal trios with piano
• Sacred vocal trios with piano
• Songs (High voice) with harp

Note

• The complete five Canticles by Britten, including the complete version of No. 3, The Heart of the Matter.
• Compact disc.
• Program notes by Paul Kildea and sung texts ([22] p. : ports.) inserted.

Event (note)

• Recorded 15-16 February 2013, Holywell Music Room, Oxford, U.K.

Contents

Canticle I : My beloved is mine, op. 40 (7:34) -- Canticle II : Abraham and Isaac, op. 51 (15:55) -- The heart of the matter. Prologue : Where are the seeds of the universal fire (2:43) ; Reading : The earth of my heart was broken and gaped low (1:56) ; Song : We are the darkness in the heat of the day (1:28) ; Reading : In such a heat of the earth (3:17) ; Canticle III : Still falls the rain, op. 55 (11:09) ; Reading : I see Christ's wounds weep in the rose on the wall (2:29) ; Epilogue : So, out of the dark (2:52) -- Canticle IV : Journey of the magi, op. 86 (11:14) -- Canticle V : The death of Saint Narcissus, op. 89 (7:49).

LCCN

5060192780314

OCLC

• ocn865013072
• 865013072
• SCSB-13626442

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries