CD 1 Britten: [1]-[8] Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op.31 [9]-[15] Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op.22
The Turn of the Screw, op.54 - Act 1: Variation VII • Scene 8 At Night [16] Miles!
The Rape of Lucretia, op.37 - Act 1 scene 1 [17] Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart / [18] Canticle II Abraham and Isaac, op.51
Peter Grimes, op.33 - Act 1 scene 2 [19] Now the Great Bear and Pleiades… / [20] Old Joe has gone fishing…/ [21] The bridge is down, we half swam over
CD 2 War Requiem, op.66 - Dies irae [1] Move him into the sun [2]-[7] Six Hölderlin Fragments, op.61
Billy Budd, op.50 - Act 2 Epilogue [8] We committed his body to the deep [9]-[17] The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op.35
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op.64 - Act 1 [18] What now, my love?
Albert Herring, op.39 - Act 2 scene 2 [19] Albert the Good!
Owen Wingrave, op.85 - Act 1 scene 7 [20] May God bless the Queen [21] Canticle V The Death of St Narcissus, op.89 Osian Ellis harp
Death in Venice, op.88 - Act 1 scene 7 [22] The boy, Tadzio, shall inspire me
CD 3 Folksongs [1] The foggy, foggy dew / [2] A brisk young widow / [3] O Waly, Waly / [4] Le roi s’en va-t’en chasse / [5] The plough boy
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Acis and Galatea [6] Lo! Here my love!… / [7] Love in her eyes sits playing
Lute songs [8] Dowland: I saw my lady weep / [9] Rosseter: What then is love but mourning / [10] Pilkington: Rest, sweet nymphs / [11] Morley: It was a lover and his lass / [12] Dowland:In darkness let me dwell
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) The Fairy Queen Part 1 – Oberon’s Birthday [13] When a cruel long winter
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) Matthäus-Passion, SWV 479 [14] Jesus aber stund für dem Landpflegers
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248 [15] Nr. 41 Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben
Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 - Part Two [16] Nr. 62 Rezitativ: Da nahmen die Kriegsknechte des Landplegers / Nr. 63 Choral: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden / Nr. 64 Rezitativ: Und da sie ihn verspottet hatten
Mass in B minor, BWV 232 [17] Benedictus
St John Passion, BWV 245 - Part Two [18] No.22 Recitative: Then they lead Jesus from Calaphas to the judgement hall
Edward Elgar (1857-1934): The Dream of Gerontius, op.38 - Part I [19] Sanctis, fortis, Sanctus Deus
CD 4 Franz Schubert (1797-1828) [1] Ganymed, D544 - first ever release
Winterreise, D911 [2] Gute Nacht / [3] Der Lindenbaum / [4] Frühlingstraum / [5] Der Leiermann
Die schöne Müllerin, D795 [6] Das Wandern / [7] Der Neugierige / [8] Der Jäger / [9] Die liebe Farbe
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Dichterliebe, op.48 [10] Im wunderschönen Monat Mai / [11] Ich grolle nicht / [12] Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet / [13] Die alten bösen Lieder
Szenen aus Goethes Faust Zweite Abteilung Nr. 4 Ariel, Sonnenaufgang [14] Die ihr dies Haupt umschwebt im luft’gen
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) L’Enfance du Christ: Deuxième partie - La Fuite en Egypte [15] Les pèlerins étant venus