Owen Brannigan, Russell Burgess & Sally Burgess - Britten: Noye's Fludde & The Golden Vanity

Britten's Noye's Fludde (Noah's Flood) is a delightful composition from a Biblical parable. This recording is one of a rare few recordings of this composition and is more authoritative than others since it is directed by the composer himself. The disc also contains one of Britten's most notorious secular works "The Golden Vanity" (subtitled "A Vaudeville For Boys and Piano").

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Noye’s Fludde, Op.59

The Chester Miracle Play set to music

Lord Jesus, think on me

I God, that all this worlde hath wroughte

Have done, you men and wemen all

Now in the name of God I will begyne

Noye, Noye, take thou thy company

Wiffe, come in! why standes thou their?

Ha! Children, me thinks my botte removes

Now forty dayes are fullie gone

Noye, take thy wife anone

Noye, heare I behette thee a heste

The spacious firmament on high

The Golden Vanity – A Vaudeville for boys & piano, Op. 78

After the old English ballad

There was a ship came from the North Country

Then up spake the cabin-boy

Casting his clothes off, he dived into the sea

They laid him on the deck

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