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Canticle No. 1_My beloved is mine
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake
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Canticle No. 2_Abraham and Isaac
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake, David Daniels
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Canticle No. 3_Still falls the rain
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake, Timothy Brown
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Canticle No. 4_The Journey of the Magi
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake, Christopher Maltman, David Daniels
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Canticle No. 5_The Death of St Narcissus
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Aline Brewer, Ian Bostridge
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Folk Song Arrangements
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Julius Drake, Christopher Maltman
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Folk Song Arrangements
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Julius Drake, Christopher Maltman
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Folk Song Arrangements
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Julius Drake, Christopher Maltman
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Folk Song Arrangements
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Julius Drake, David Daniels
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Folk Song Arrangements
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Julius Drake, David Daniels
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Folk Song Arrangements
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake
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Folk Song Arrangements
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake
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Amazon.co.uk Review
If you were assembling a latterday dream-team for a package programme of all five Britten Canticles, this would probably be it. And with one or two exceptions, it delivers everything you'd want. Ian Bostridge--the most literate tenor on God's earth--was born to sing this repertory, observing subtleties of text and niceties of diction without compromise to the beauty of fine-spun legato lines. David Daniels--an accomplished actor--sings the boy in Abraham and Isaac with exactly the right mix of pathos and restraint. Christopher Maltman provides the vocal equivalent of lithe, young, gym-toned muscularity in Journey of the Magi and the group of folk-song settings that pad out the disc. And Julius Drake homes-in as if by instinct on what really tells in the accompaniments: a figure here that signals something to the voice, a chord there that transforms the colour of a phrase. The two supporting instrumentalists (Timothy Brown, horn and Aline Brewer, harp) add to the pleasure of it all. Just one reservation: Bostridge doesn't quite have the climactic roar of joy required for My Beloved is Mine or the authoritative weight for Abraham, and Daniels can sound womanly, as well as over-artful in the folk songs (although not everyone feels comfortable with countertenors singing folksongs). And in any case, it's not enough to counter the outstanding virtues of the disc. --Michael White
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