Britten – Collected Songs (High Voice) [HL:48019418]

63 songs, with extensive historical introductory notes. Includes all art songs originally composed for voice and piano published by Boosey & Hawkes. The content is the same for the High Voice and Medium/Low Voice volumes, with newly published transpositions as necessary. Contents: The Birds • A Charm of Lullabies (5 songs) • Evening, Morning, Night • Fish in the Unruffled Lakes (6 songs) • The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (8 songs) • On This Island (5 songs) • Sechs Hölderlin Fragmente (6 songs) • Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) • Songs from the Chinese (6 songs, transcribed for voice and piano) • Three Songs from The Heart of the Matter (with horn) • Winter Words (8 songs plus 2 songs cut from the cycle) • Two Ballads (duets).