Album lyrics Britten: War Requiem; Spring Symphony; 5 Flower Songs; Hymn to St. Cecilia by Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, NDR-Sinfonieorchester & John Eliot Gardiner

Britten: War Requiem; Spring Symphony; 5 Flower Songs; Hymn to St. Cecilia

Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, NDR-Sinfonieorchester & John Eliot Gardiner

2002 20 songs

1. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 1. Introduction: Shine out

2. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 2. The merry cuckoo

3. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 3. Spring, the sweet Spring

4. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 4. The driving boy

5. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 5. The morning star

6. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 6. Welcome Maids of Honour

7. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 7. Waters above!

8. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 8. Out on the lawn I lie in bed

9. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 9. When will my May come

10. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 10. Fair and fair

11. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 11. Sound the flute!

12. Spring Symphony, Op.44: 12. Finale: London, to thee I do present

13. Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), Op.27: In a garden shady

14. Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), Op.27: I cannot grow

15. Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), Op.27: O ear whose creatures

16. Five Flower Songs op.47: 1. To Daffodils

17. Five Flower Songs op.47: 2. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months

18. Five Flower Songs op.47: 3. Marsh Flowers

19. Five Flower Songs op.47: 4. The Evening Primrose

20. Five Flower Songs op.47: 5. Ballad of Green Broom