Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op 49 (Britten)
from Britten: Music for Oboe & Music for Piano (CDH55154)
1 Pan, who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved [1'54]
2 Phaeton, who made upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a t [1'29]
3 Niobe, who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain [2'12]
4 Bacchus, at whose feast is heard the noise of gaggling women's tattling tongues and shouting out of [1'57]
5 Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image and became a flower [2'20]
6 Arethusa, who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain [2'39]
12 minutes 31 seconds 6 tracks