Fen and Meadow
Britten Choral Works III

These works show some of the breadth and range of Britten's choral writing, embracing the masque from his opera Gloriana, his own take on the English part song tradition in Five Flower Songs, and his last work for unaccompanied voices, Sacred and Profane. The latter sets medieval texts described herein as 'a mixture of the devotional and the rumbustiously secular'.

TRACK LISTINGS
Choral Dances from 'Gloriana'
solo tenor: Ian Partridge
The Masque begins 0.53
First Dance: Time 1.43
Second Dance: Concord 2.39
Third Dance: Time and Concord 1.48
Fourth Dance: Country Girls 1.14
Fifth Dance: Rustics and Fishermen 1.19
Sixth Dance: Final Dance of Homage 2.16
Advance Democracy 3.15
The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard 8.28
A Wedding Anthem 8.59
solos: Ruth Dean, Neil MacKenzie
Five Flower Songs
To Daffodils 1.50
The Succession of the Four
Sweet Months 2.06
Marsh Flowers 1.56
The Evening Primrose 2.44
Ballad of Green Broom 1.53
Sacred and Profane
St Godric's Hymn 1.34
I mon waxe wod 0.38
Lenten is come 2.43
The long night 1.19
Yif ic of luve can 2.38
Carol 1.36
Ye that pasen by 2.18
A death 3.03
Total playing time 60.10