Hyperion Records
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CDH55154
(Originally issued on CDA66776)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Recording details: June 1995
St Michael's Church, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: July 2003
Total duration: 74 minutes 30 seconds

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'I can highly recommend this CD for the wonderful mixture of Britten's chamber works and the all-round excellent playing' (The Musician)

'One of the most magical discs of Britten yet made' (Fanfare, USA)

'Michael Dussek s'y montre remarquable. Sarah Francis qui dispose d'une gamme dramatique et expressive exceptionelle' (Répertoire, France)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Music for Oboe & Music for Piano
Sarah Francis (oboe), Michael Dussek (piano), Delmé Quartet
1
Phantasy Quartet, Op 2  [13'25]
Galina Solodchin (violin)
Holiday Diary, Op 5
2
Movement 1: Early Morning Bath  [2'20]
3
Movement 2: Sailing  [4'36]
4
Movement 3: Fun-Fair  [2'49]
5
Movement 4: Night  [6'09]
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op 49
6
No 1: Pan, who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved  [1'54]
7
No 2: Phaeton, who made upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt  [1'29]
8
No 3: Niobe, who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain  [2'12]
9
No 4: Bacchus, at whose feast is heard the noise of gaggling women's tattling tongues and shouting out of boys  [1'57]
10
No 5: Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image and became a flower  [2'20]
11
No 6: Arethusa, who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain  [2'39]
Temporal Variations
12
Movement 1: Theme. Andante rubato  [1'26]
13
Movement 2: Oration. Lento quasi recitativo  [1'39]
14
Movement 3: March. Alla marcia  [1'09]
15
Movement 4: Exercises. Allegro molto e fuoco  [1'03]
16
Movement 5: Commination. Adagio con fuoco  [1'14]
17
Movement 6: Chorale. Molto lento  [1'37]
18
Movement 7: Waltz. Allegretto rubato  [1'21]
19
Movement 8: Polka. Tempo di Polka – Allegro  [1'12]
20
Movement 9: Resolution. Maestoso (Ma non troppo lento)  [1'56]
Five Waltzes
21
No 1: Rather fast and nervous  [1'22]
22
No 2: Quick, wit wit  [1'35]
23
No 3: Dramatic  [1'21]
24
No 4: Rhythmic. Not fast  [3'01]
25
No 5: Variations. Quiet and simple; Flowing; Slow and sad  [2'36]
Two Insect Pieces
26
No 1: The Grasshopper  [2'37]
27
No 2: The Wasp  [1'53]
28
Night Piece. Notturno  [5'38]