Fen and Meadow: Britten Choral Works Volume III. Album by The Sixteen

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Fen and Meadow: Britten Choral Works Volume III. Album by The SixteenBenjamin 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'. Ian Partridge The Sixteen Harry Christophers Track

Many such days may she behold

Aria (Bass) - Ich will von Jesu Wundern singen

(Alto) - Esurientes

Roderick Williams baritone

Brahms’ German Requiem one of the great choral masterpieces of all time

Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt (bass /chorus)

nobil alma

Vae nobis miseris

and finally the death of a lover

Recit (Alto) - Der höchsten Allmacht Wunderhand

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 76

This disc combines some of Henry Purcell’s most powerful masterpieces