Philip Langridge - Canticles 1-5

Britten' five Canticles are marvelously vivid, intensely dramatic works.

1) Canticle I Op. 40 - My Beloved Is Mine
2) Canticle II Op. 51 - Abraham Isaac - Jean Rigby
3) Prologue - Fanfare - Song: Where Are the Seeds of the Universal Fire
4) Reading - the Earth of My Heart Was Broken and Gaped Low... - Fanfare
5) Reading - in the Hour When the Sapphire of the Bone
6) Song - We Are the Darkness in the Heat of the Day
7) Reading - in Such a Heat of the Earth
8) Canticle III Op. 55 - Still Falls the Rain
9) Reading - I See Christ's Wounds Weep in the Rose on the Wall
10) Epilogue - Fanfare - So Out of the Dark
11) Canticle Iv Op. 86 - Journey of the Magi - Derek Lee Ragin
12) Canticle V Op. 89 - the Death of Saint Narcissus