CDs with: Bedford, Steuart

4 songs for voice and violin, op. 35 ; 6 songs, op. 16 ; Vedic hymns : op. 24 ; 12 Humbert Wolfe settings : op. 48 / Gustav Holst.

4 songs for voice and violin, op. 35: Jesu sweet (2:51) ; My soul has nought but fire and ice (0:56) ; I sing of a maiden (1:21) ; My Leman is so true (2:20) -- 6 songs, op. 16: Calm is the morn (4:16) ; My true love hath my heart (1:33) ; Weep you no more (2:05) ; Lovely kind and kindly loving (1:50) ; Cradle song (1:30) ; Peace (2:01) -- Vedic hymns, op. 24: Ushas (Dawn) (3:26) ; Varuna (Sky) (3:12) ; Maruts (Stormclouds) (1:58) ; Indra (God of storm and battle) (3:29) ; Varuna II (The waters) (2:12) ; Song of the frogs (2:03) ; Vac (Speech)(2:26) ; Crreation (3:32) ; Faith (2:39) -- 12 Humbert Wolfe settings, op. 48: Persephone (1:27) ; Things lovelier (1:12) ; Now in these fairylands (1:21) ; A little music (1:58) ; The thought (1:51) ; The floral bandit (2:10) ; Envoi (3:58) ; The dream-city (3:12) ; Journey's end (2:12) ; In the street of lost time (0:55) ; Rhyme (1:48) ; Betelgeuse (3:39) -- Margaret's cradle song (2:40) -- The heart worships (3:11).

CD 2229

Phaedra ; The rape of Lucretia / Britten.

disc 1. Phaedra. In May, in brilliant Athens (6:37) ; Oh Gods of wrath (2:51) ; My time's too short, your highness (5:56) ; The rape of Lucretia. Act one. Scene 1. Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart (2:38) ; It is an axiom among kings (2:33) ; Here the thirsty evening (2:54) ; Who reaches heaven first (2:33) ; Maria was unmasked at a masked ball (4:14) ; Collatinus is politically astute (4:29) ; There goes a happy man! (4:15) ; Tarquinius does not dare (2:26) ; My horse! My horse!-- Tarquinius does not wait (3:07) ; Scene 2. Their spinning-wheel unwinds (5:19) ; Listen! I heard a knock (2:35) ; Time treads upon the hands of women (3:42) ; The oatmeal slippers of sleep (7:37) -- disc 2. The rape of Lucretia. Act two. Scene 1. The prosperity of the Etruscans (7:19) ; She sleeps as a rose (5:26) ; Within this frail crucible of light (4:26) ; Lucretia!-- what do you want? (5:57) ; Interlude : Here in this scene (4:07) ; Scene 2. Oh! What a lovely day! (4:27) ; We'll leave the orchids for Lucretia (4:59) ; Flowers bring to every year (3:24) ; You were right (3:52) ; Lucretia! Lucretia! (2:57) ; Last night Tarquinius ravished me (3:30) ; This dead hand lets fall (4:09) ; Epilogue : Is it all? (5:20).

CD 2783

Settings of poems by W.H. Auden / Benjamin Britten, Lennox Berkeley.

Five poems : op. 53 ; Night covers up the rigid land : op. 14, no. 2 ; Lay your sleeping head, my love : op. 14, no. 2b / Lennox Berkeley -- On this island : op. 11 ; Fish in the unruffled lakes ; Night covers up the rigid land ; To lie flat on the back ; The sun shines down ; What's on your mind? ; Underneath the abject willow ; Cabaret songs ; When you're feeling like expressing your affection ; Underneath the abject willow : duet / Benjamin Britten.

CD 2232

Simple symphony ; Temporal variations ; A charm of lullabies ; Lachrymae ; Suite on English folk tunes / Benjamin Britten.

Simple symphony, op. 4. Boisterous bourée (3.22) ; Playful pizzicato (3.00) ; Sentimental sarabande (6.32) ; Frolicsome finale (3.05) -- Temporal variations. Theme (1.50) ; Oration (1.37) ; March (1.13) ; Exercises (0.59) ; Commination (1.20) ; Chorale (2.18) ; Waltz (1.33) ; Polka (1.10) ; Resolution (1.45) -- A charm of Italian lullabies. A cradle song (2.55) ; The highland balou (2.03) ; Sephestia's lullaby (1.56) ; A charm (2.02) ; The nurse's song (4.46) -- Lachrymae, op. 48a (14.24) -- Suite on English folk tunes, op. 90 "A time there was -- ". Cakes and ale (2.27) ; The bitter withy (2.32) ; Hankin booby (2.05) ; Hunt the squirrel (1.22) ; Lord Melbourne (5.14)

CD 2306

Songs. Selections

4 songs for voice and violin, op. 35: Jesu sweet (2:51) ; My soul has nought but fire and ice (0:56) ; I sing of a maiden (1:21) ; My Leman is so true (2:20) -- 6 songs, op. 16: Calm is the morn (4:16) ; My true love hath my heart (1:33) ; Weep you no more (2:05) ; Lovely kind and kindly loving (1:50) ; Cradle song (1:30) ; Peace (2:01) -- Vedic hymns, op. 24: Ushas (Dawn) (3:26) ; Varuna (Sky) (3:12) ; Maruts (Stormclouds) (1:58) ; Indra (God of storm and battle) (3:29) ; Varuna II (The waters) (2:12) ; Song of the frogs (2:03) ; Vac (Speech)(2:26) ; Crreation (3:32) ; Faith (2:39) -- 12 Humbert Wolfe settings, op. 48: Persephone (1:27) ; Things lovelier (1:12) ; Now in these fairylands (1:21) ; A little music (1:58) ; The thought (1:51) ; The floral bandit (2:10) ; Envoi (3:58) ; The dream-city (3:12) ; Journey's end (2:12) ; In the street of lost time (0:55) ; Rhyme (1:48) ; Betelgeuse (3:39) -- Margaret's cradle song (2:40) -- The heart worships (3:11).

CD 2229

Works. Selections

Simple symphony, op. 4. Boisterous bourée (3.22) ; Playful pizzicato (3.00) ; Sentimental sarabande (6.32) ; Frolicsome finale (3.05) -- Temporal variations. Theme (1.50) ; Oration (1.37) ; March (1.13) ; Exercises (0.59) ; Commination (1.20) ; Chorale (2.18) ; Waltz (1.33) ; Polka (1.10) ; Resolution (1.45) -- A charm of Italian lullabies. A cradle song (2.55) ; The highland balou (2.03) ; Sephestia's lullaby (1.56) ; A charm (2.02) ; The nurse's song (4.46) -- Lachrymae, op. 48a (14.24) -- Suite on English folk tunes, op. 90 "A time there was -- ". Cakes and ale (2.27) ; The bitter withy (2.32) ; Hankin booby (2.05) ; Hunt the squirrel (1.22) ; Lord Melbourne (5.14)

CD 2306