Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60:6. "She Sleeps On Soft, Last Breaths"

Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings; Les Illuminations; Nocturne

Sir Peter Pears

歌词

She sleeps on soft, last breaths; but no ghost looms

Out of the stillness of her palace wall,

Her wall of boys on boys and dooms on dooms.

She dreams of golden gardens and sweet glooms,

Not marvelling why her roses never fall

Nor what red mouths were torn to make their blooms.

The shades keep down which well might roam her hall.

Quiet their blood lies in her crimson rooms

And she is not afraid of their footfall.

They move not from her tapestries, their pall,

Nor pace her terraces, their hecatombs,

Lest aught she be disturbed, or grieved at all.

专辑信息

1.Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31:Prologue

2.Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31:Pastoral

3.Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31:Nocturne

4.Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31:Elegy

5.Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31:Dirge

6.Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31:Hymn

7.Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31:Sonnet

8.Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31:Epilogue

9.Les Illuminations, Op.18:I. Fanfare

10.Les Illuminations, Op.18:II. Villes

11.Les Illuminations, Op.18:IIIa. Phrase

12.Les Illuminations, Op.18:IIIb. Antique

13.Les Illuminations, Op.18:IV. Royauté

14.Les Illuminations, Op.18:V. Marine

15.Les Illuminations, Op.18:VI. Interlude

16.Les Illuminations, Op.18:VII. Being beauteous

17.Les Illuminations, Op.18:VIII. Parade

18.Les Illuminations, Op.18:IX. Départ

19.Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60:1. "On A Poet's Lips I Slept"

20.Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60:2. "Below The Thunders Of The Upper Deep"

21.Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60:3. "Encintured With A Twine Of Leaves"

22.Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60:4. "Midnight's Bell Goes Ting, Ting, Ting"

23.Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60:5. "But That Night When On My Bed I Lay"

24.Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60:6. "She Sleeps On Soft, Last Breaths"

25.Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60:7. "What Is More Gentle Than A Wind In Summer?"

26.Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60:8. "When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See"