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Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18 (In French & [CD]

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Street Date: 2026-01-30

Featuring the first recording of BRITTEN's Les Illuminations, Op. 18 sung in English, from a brand new translation by Timothy Ades. Also includes the original French version. Coupled with Samuel BARBER's dramatic masterpiece Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24, written just a few years after Les Illuminations.Among the most personal and powerful music ever written for the human voice, Britten and Barber's masterpiece settings of texts by Rimbaud and Agee continue to resonate intensely. Taken together, they form bookends to the cataclysms of the 20th century, with it's two life-shattering world wars. The colours, verbal and harmonic, of such human drama are a dazzling mix, running the gamut of life in dramatic flux. Mild mannered it is not, though parts are hauntingly beautiful.

Tracklist:

  1. Illuminations, Op. 18~I. Fanfare
  2. Illuminations, Op. 18~II. Villes
  3. Illuminations, Op. 18~IIIa. Phrase
  4. Illuminations, Op. 18~IIIb. Antique
  5. Illuminations, Op. 18~IV. Royauté
  6. Illuminations, Op. 18~V. Marine
  7. Illuminations, Op. 18~VI. Interlude
  8. Illuminations, Op. 18~VII. Being Beauteous
  9. Illuminations, Op. 18~VIII. Parade
  10. Illuminations, Op. 18~IX. Départ
  11. Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
  12. Illuminations, Op. 18~I. Fanfare
  13. Illuminations, Op. 18~~II. Towns
  14. Illuminations, Op. 18~IIIa. Phrase
  15. Illuminations, Op. 18~IIIb. Antique
  16. Illuminations, Op. 18~IV. Royalty
  17. Illuminations, Op. 18~V. Seascape
  18. Illuminations, Op. 18~VI. Interlude
  19. Illuminations, Op. 18~VII. Beautiful Being
  20. Illuminations, Op. 18~VIII. Parade
  21. Illuminations, Op. 18~IX. Departing

UPC: 5060216343150
Label: First Hand
Release Date: 1.30.26
Format: CD

SKU: 13361877
UPC: 5060216343150