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Winter Words, Op. 52 : The Choirmaster's Burial - "The Tenor Man's Story"

by Sir Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten · from Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Winter Words, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo

2010Classical3:52Track 13

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Review by Yuki Tanaka★★★★Sample

The production on this is so warm it feels like sitting next to a radiator in January.

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Review by Mira Okafor★★★★½Sample

Played this on a road trip and now every highway sounds like “Winter Words, Op. 52 : The Choirmaster's Burial - "The Tenor Man's Story"”.

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Also on Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Winter Words, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo

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1
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31 : Prologue
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1:27
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31 : Pastorale
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3:39
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31 : Nocturne
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3:30
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31 : Elegy
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4:46
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31 : Dirge
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4:03
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31 : Hymn
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2:03
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31 : Sonnet
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3:57
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31 : Epilogue
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1:33
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Winter Words, Op. 52 : At day-close in November
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1:44
10
Winter Words, Op. 52 : Midnight on the Great Western - "The Journeying Boy"
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4:37
11
Winter Words, Op. 52 : Wagtail and Baby 'A Satire'
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2:04
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Winter Words, Op. 52 : The Little Old Table
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1:30
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Winter Words, Op. 52 : The Choirmaster's Burial - "The Tenor Man's Story"
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3:52
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Winter Words, Op. 52 : Proud Songsters 'Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales'
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1:12
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Winter Words, Op. 52 : At the Railway Station, Upway 'The Convict and the Boy with the Violin'
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2:47
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Winter Words, Op. 52 : Before Life and After
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3:24
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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 : Sonetto XVI. Sì come nella penna e nell' inchiostro
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2:05
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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 : Sonetto XXXI. A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia
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1:29
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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 : Sonetto XXX. Veggio co'bei vostri occhi un dolce lume
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3:25
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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 : Sonetto LV. Tu sa' ch'io so, signor mie, che tu sai
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1:54
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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 : Sonetto XXXVIII. Rendete a gli occhi miei
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2:00
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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 : Sonetto XXXII. S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna
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1:25
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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 : Sonetto XXIV. Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede
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5:02