Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Joy Boughton (oboe)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41, for mezzo-soprano and piano
A cradle song; The highland balou; Sephestia's lullaby; A charm; The nurse's song
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op.
49, for unaccompanied oboe
Pan; phaeton; Niobe; Bacchus; Narcissus; Arethusa
Winter Words. Op. 54 (lyrics and ballads by Thomas Hardy )
At day-close in November; Midnight on the Great Western (The journeying boy); Wagtail and baby; The little old table; The choirmaster's burial (The tenor m'an's story); Proud songsters (Thrushes, finches, and nightingales); At the railway station, Upway (The boy with the violin); Before life and after
(first broadcast performance) (The last work is recorded)
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