Fen and Meadow: Britten Choral Works, Volume III - Ian Partridge; The Sixteen

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

'...exceptional quality, reinforcing The Sixteen's reputation as one of the finest choirs of our day.' Gramophone

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Choral Dances from 'Gloriana'
1. The Masque begins
2. First Dance: Time
3. Second Dance: Concord
4. Third Dance: Time and Concord
5. Fourth Dance: Country Girls
6. Fifth Dance: Rustics and Fishermen
7. Sixth Dance: Final Dance of Homage

8. Advance Democracy

9. The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard

10. A Wedding Anthem

Five Flower Songs
11. To Daffodils
12. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months
13. Marsh Flowers
14. The Evening Primrose
15. Ballad of Green Broom

SACRED AND PROFANE
16. St Godric's Hymn
17. I mon waxe wod
18. Lenten is come
19. The long night
20. Yif ic of luve can
21. Carol
22. Ye that pasen by
23. A death