Britten: Canticles - The Heart of the Matter

Canticle I, Op. 40, "My beloved is mine"

Daniel Norman

Canticle II, Op. 51, "Abraham and Isaac"

Benjamin MacLean

The Heart of the Matter: 1. Prologue. Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire

Benjamin MacLean

The Heart of the Matter: Reading. The earth of my heart was broken and gaped low - Fanfare

Benjamin MacLean

The Heart of the Matter: 2. Song. We are the darkness in the heat of the day

Benjamin MacLean

The Heart of the Matter: Reading. In such a heat of the earth

Benjamin MacLean

Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn"

Daniel Norman

The Heart of the Matter: Reading. I see Christ's wounds weep in the Rose on the wall

Benjamin MacLean

The Heart of the Matter: 3. Epilogue. So, out of the dark

Benjamin MacLean

Canticle IV, Op. 86, "The Journey of the Magi"

Daniel Norman

Canticle V, Op. 89, "The Death of Saint Narcissus"

Daniel Norman