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The Heart of the Matter (1956) (Arr. P Pears)

Text: Edith Sitwell, Arrangement: Sir Peter Pears
Benjamin Maclean (Child's Voice), William Towers (Countertenor), Daniel Norman (Tenor), Roderick Williams (Baritone), Harriet Walter (Speaker), Richard Watkins (Horn), Hugh Webb (Harp), Christopher Gould (Piano)
℗ 2013
7 Tracks, 25:56
    • 1. Prologue – Fanfare 'Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire' (Tenor, Horn, Piano)
      02:43
    • Reading 'The earth of my heart was broken and gaped low' – Fanfare
      01:56
    • 2. Song 'We are the darkness in the heat of the day' (Tenor, Piano)
      01:28
    • Reading 'In such a heat of the earth'
      03:18
    • Canticle III op. 55 (1954): Still Falls the Rain
      11:10
    • Reading 'I see Christ's wounds weep in the Rose on the wall'
      02:29
    • 3. Epilogue 'So, out of the dark' – Fanfare (Tenor, Horn, Piano)
      02:52