CDs with: Shirley-Quirk, John

A child of our time / Tippett.

CD 2139

Kingdom

The kingdom (oratorio) for vocal soloists, orchestra and chorus, op. 51 -- Coronation ode for SATB soloists, orchestra and chorus, op. 44.

CD 2996

Owen Wingrave : Hölderlin fragments ; The poet's echo / Britten.

Six Hölderlin fragments (11:44). Menschenbeifall ; Die Heimat ; Sokrates und Alcibiades ; Die Jugend ; Hälfte des Lebens ; Die Linien des Lebens -- The poet's echo (14:48). Ekho (Echo) ; Ya dumal, serdtse pozabilo (My heart, I thought you had forgotten) ; Angel ; Solovyei i roza (The nightingale and the rose) ; Epigramma (Epigram) ; Stikhi, sochinyonniye nochyu vo vremya besonnitsi (Lines written during a sleepless night).

CD 1406

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

The kingdom ; Coronation ode / Edward Elgar.

The kingdom (oratorio) for vocal soloists, orchestra and chorus, op. 51 -- Coronation ode for SATB soloists, orchestra and chorus, op. 44.

CD 2996

Tit for tat : a celebration / music by Benjamin Britten.

From Eight folk song arrangements. Lord! I married me a wife ; She's like the swallow ; Lemady -- Two insect pieces -- Suite for harp, op. 83 -- Tit for tat : five settings from boyhood of poems by Walter de la Mare -- Six metamorphoses after Ovid : op. 49, for oboe solo -- From Eight folk song arrangements. Bonny at morn ; David of the white rock ; Bird scarer's song.

CD 2338

Works. Selections

From Eight folk song arrangements. Lord! I married me a wife ; She's like the swallow ; Lemady -- Two insect pieces -- Suite for harp, op. 83 -- Tit for tat : five settings from boyhood of poems by Walter de la Mare -- Six metamorphoses after Ovid : op. 49, for oboe solo -- From Eight folk song arrangements. Bonny at morn ; David of the white rock ; Bird scarer's song.

CD 2338

Works. Selections

Six Hölderlin fragments (11:44). Menschenbeifall ; Die Heimat ; Sokrates und Alcibiades ; Die Jugend ; Hälfte des Lebens ; Die Linien des Lebens -- The poet's echo (14:48). Ekho (Echo) ; Ya dumal, serdtse pozabilo (My heart, I thought you had forgotten) ; Angel ; Solovyei i roza (The nightingale and the rose) ; Epigramma (Epigram) ; Stikhi, sochinyonniye nochyu vo vremya besonnitsi (Lines written during a sleepless night).

CD 1406