Episode 19 from the series about Benjamin Britten & Contemporaries: Brittens Christmas cantata Christ’s Nativity, the fourth of his five Canticles and the string quartet in a-minor from contemporary William Walton.
William Walton (1902-1983)
String Quartet a (1945/46)
1. Allegro
2. Presto
3. Lento
4. Allegro molto
Britten Quartet: Peter Manning, 1st violin; Keith Pascoe, 2nd violin; Peter Lale, viola; Andrew Schulman, cello.
Basilica Music (2014), www.hmvdigital.com/releases/3833943
Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
Christ’s Nativity (1931)
1. Christ’s Nativity
2. Sweet was the Song
3. Preparations
4. New Prince, New Pomp
Steuart Bedford: BBC Singers
Decca 478-5364 (2013)
Canticle no.4 op.86 – Journey of the Magi (1971)
Mark Padmore, tenor; Iestyn Davies, countertenor; Marcus Farnsworth, bariton; Julius Drake, piano; Lucy Wakeford, harp; Richard Watkins, horn.
