Insomnia Aurora Orchestra

Album info

Album-Release:
2015

HRA-Release:
05.08.2015

Label: Warner Classics

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

Artist: Aurora Orchestra

Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), François Couperin (1668-1733), Brett Dean (1961-), György Ligeti (1923-2006)

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  • Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
  • 1 5 Elizabethan Songs: IV. Sleep (arr. Farrington) 03:07
  • François Couperin (1668-1733)
  • 2 Les Baricades mistérieuses (arr. Adès) 02:46
  • Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): Nocturne, Op. 60
  • 3 I. On a poet's lips I slept 03:07
  • 4 II. Below the thunders of the upper deep 03:16
  • 5 III. Encinctured with a twine of leaves 02:09
  • 6 IV. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting 02:16
  • 7 V. But that night when on my bed I lay 02:53
  • 8 VI. She sleeps on soft, last breaths 04:36
  • 9 VII. What is more gentle than a wind in summer? 03:05
  • 10 VIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see 04:11
  • John Lennon (1940-1980), Paul McCartney (1942)
  • 11 Blackbird (arr. Farrington) 02:56
  • Brett Dean (1961)
  • 12 Pastoral Symphony 16:43
  • György Ligeti (1923-2006)
  • 13 Poème symphonique (for 100 Metronomes) 03:55
  • Peter Buck (1956), Mike Mills (1966), Michael Stipe (1960)
  • 14 I've been High (arr. Tognetti) 03:43
  • Total Runtime 58:43

Info for Insomnia

Insomnia is the second Warner Classics album from the innovative, imaginative Aurora Orchestra and its Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon. In a typically colourful themed programme it explores the night, its thoughts and dreams and the hazy space between waking and sleeping. Britten’s Nocturne – with tenor Allan Clayton – and Brett Dean’s Pastoral Symphony are juxtaposed with music by Couperin, Ligeti, Gurney, The Beatles and R.E.M.

While its name evokes the dawn, the Aurora Orchestra has chosen to devote its second Warner Classics release to an exploration of a troubled night – its thoughts and dreams and the hazy space between waking and sleeping. The album carries a striking, but apt name: Insomnia.

Allan Clayton, tenor
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor

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