Ian Bostridge, Graham Johnson - Britten: The Red Cockatoo & other songs

Fourteen of the songs on this major release are recorded for the first time. The inspiration for the Holy Sonnets was a harrowing trip paid by Britten and Yehudi Menuhin to Belsen at the end of the war, while the songs from the collection �The Red Cockatoo and other songs� respond to a wide variety of more homely influences.