Britten the performer : complete Decca recordings /

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Corporate Authors: Wandsworth School. Boys' Choir. (Performer); English Chamber Orchestra. (Performer); Aldeburgh Festival Singers. (Performer); Ambrosian Opera Chorus. (Performer); Ambrosian Singers. (Performer); Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra. (Performer); London Symphony Chorus. (Performer); King's College (University of Cambridge). Choir. (Performer); London Symphony Orchestra. (Performer); Zorian String Quartet. (Performer)
Group Author: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. (Conductor); Pears, Peter, 1910-1986. (Instrumentalist); Holst, Imogen, 1907-1984 (arranger of music.); Howell, Gwynne. (Singer); Burgess, Russell. (arranger of music.); Hill, Jenny, 1944- (Translator); Tobin, John. (arranger of music.); Thompson, Adrian. (Singer); Harper, Heather. (Singer); Hodgson, Alfreda. (Singer); Tear, Robert. (Singer); Watts, Helen. (Singer); Shirley-Quirk, John. (Singer); Baker, Janet, 1933- (Singer); Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich, 1925-2012. (Singer); Vyvyan, Jennifer, 1925-1974. (Singer); Wells, Mary Erryl, 1935- (Singer); Burrowes, Norma. (Singer); Brett, Charles, 1941- (Singer); Partridge, Ian, 1938- (Singer); Brannigan, Owen. (Singer); Veasey, Josephine. (Singer); Bowman, James. (Singer); Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007. (Singer); Richter, Sviatoslav, 1915-1997. (Singer); Curzon, Clifford, 1907-1982. (Singer); Cable, Margaret. (Singer); Elwes, John. (Instrumentalist); Jenkins, Neil. (Instrumentalist); Noble, John, 1931-2008. (Instrumentalist); Minton, Yvonne. (Singer); Vishnevskai︠a︡, Galina, 1926-2012. (Singer); Hurwitz, Emanuel, 1919-2006. (Singer); Garcia, José-Luis, 1944-2011. (Singer); Aronowitz, Cecil. (Singer); Richards, Bernard. (Singer); Brainin, Norbert. (Instrumentalist); Schidlof, Peter. (Instrumentalist); Lovett, Martin. (Instrumentalist); Tunnard, Viola. (Instrumentalist); Ferrier, Kathleen, 1912-1953. (Instrumentalist); Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. (Instrumentalist, Singer); Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.; Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809.; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.; Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.; Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.; Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.; Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934.; Bridge, Frank, 1879-1941.; Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934.; Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975.; Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928.; Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958.; Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961.; Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934.; Butterworth, George, 1885-1916.; Moeran, E. J. (Ernest John), 1894-1950.; Warlock, Peter, 1894-1930.; Ireland, John, 1879-1962.; Berkeley, Lennox, 1903-1989.; Oldham, Arthur, 1926-2003.; Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998.; Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
Published: Decca,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: [2013]
℗2013
Literature type: CD Audio
Language: Multiple
English
German
Italian
Subjects:
Item Description: Benjamin Britten's complete Decca recordings as pianist and conductor, in music by other composers.
Title from container.
Individual discs ℗ various years ranging from 1948 to 2013.
Program notes in English in booklet (66 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Durations: 62 min., 48 sec. ; 67 min., 40 sec. ; 79 min., 4 sec. ; 68 min., 26 sec. ; 56 min., 17 sec. ; 79 min., 12 sec. ; 72 min., 30 sec. ; 61 min., 7 sec. ; 70 min., 59 sec. ; 77 min., 5 sec. ; 76 min., 47 sec. ; 65 min., 3 sec. ; 79 min., 5 sec. ; 75 min., 9 sec. ; 73 min., 7 sec. ; 73 min., 23 sec. ; 74 min., 34 sec. ; 72 min., 45 sec. ; 62 min., 55 sec. ; 65 min., 53 sec. ; 54 min., 56 sec. ; 62 min., 16 sec. ; 68 min., 4 sec. ; 74 min., 53 sec. ; 78 min., 2 sec. ; 63 min., 37 sec. ; 80 min., 56 sec.
Carrier Form: 27 audio discs : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (65 p.)
Index Number: M1000
CLC: J652.8
Call Number: #WCD/140518
Contents: Discs 1 & 2. St. John Passion / J.S. Bach -- Discs 3 & 4. Cantatas BWV 151 & 102 ; Brandenburg concertos / J.S. Bach -- Discs 5 & 6. The Fairy Queen ; Celebrate this festival ; Chacony / Purcell -- Disc 7. Symphonies 45 "Farewell" & 55 "Schoolmaster" ; Cello concerto, Hob. VIIb:I / Haydn -- Discs 8-10. Symphonies 25, 29, 38 "Prague", 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter" ; Serenata notturna ; Si mostra la sorte ; Per pietà, non ricercate / Mozart -- Discs 11 & 12. Piano concertos 12, 20 & 27 ; Sonatas for piano four hands/two pianos / Mozart -- Discs 13 & 14. "Unfinished" symphony ; Arpeggione sonata ; Andantino varié, D823 ; Fantasy, D940 ; Variations, D813 ; Grand Duo / Schubert ; En blanc et noir / Debussy -- Discs 15-17. Winterreise ; Die schöne Müllerin ; 16 Lieder / Schubert ; Dichterliebe / Schumann -- Discs 18 & 19. Szenen aus Goethes Faust ; 5 Stüke im Volkston / Schumann -- Discs 20 & 21. Summer night on the river ; 2 Aquarelles / Delius ; Sir Roger de Coverley / Bridge ; Introduction and allegro ; The dream of Gerontius / Elgar -- Disc 22. Cello sonata ; 7 Blok romances / Shostakovich ; Pohádka / Janác̆ek -- Disc 23. On Wenlock edge / Vaughan Williams ; Phantasie quartet ; Cello sonata / Bridge ; Cello sonata / Debussy -- Disc 24. Shepherd's hey ; Willow, willow ; I'm seventeen come Sunday ; Bold William Taylor ; There was a pig went out to dig ; My Robin is to the greenwood gone ; Lord Maxwell's goodnight ; Let's dance gay in the green meadow ; Scotch strathspey and reel ; The pretty maid milkin' her cow ; The sprig o'thyme ; Lisbon ; The lost lady found ; Shallow brown / Grainger ; Sweeter than roses / Purcell ; 6 Canzonettas / Haydn -- Disc 25. Twelve songs, op. 48 (H174) / Holst ; 'Tis but a week ; Goldenhair ; When you are old ; So perverse ; Journey's end ; Go not, happy day ; Love went a-riding / Bridge ; Is my team ploughing? / Butterworth ; In youth is pleasure / Moeran ; Yarmouth fair / Warlock ; The land of lost content ; The trellis ; Three songs ; I have twelve Oxen / Ireland ; How love came in / Berkeley ; Three Chinese lyrics / Oldham ; Songs for Ariel / Tippett -- Disc 26. Ganymed, D544 ; Du liebst mich nicht, D756 ; Lachen und Weinen, D777 ; Der Einsame, D800 ; Du bist die Ruh, D776 ; Der Musensohn, D764 ; Der zürnenden Diana, D707 ; Sprache der Liebe, D410 ; Harfenspieler I, D478 ; Der Musensohn, D764 ; Du bist die Ruh, D776 ; Geheimes, D719 ; Die Stadt, D957 ; Harfenspieler III, D480 ; Dass sie hier gewesen, D775 ; Der zürnenden Diana, D707 ; Ganymed, D544 / Schubert ; Variations on an Elizabethan theme "Sellinger's round" ; Fanfare from Gloriana, op. 53 / Britten ; God save the Queen -- Disc 27. Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV76 / Handel ; Overture to Cosi fan tutte, K588 ; Si mostra la sorte propizia, K209 ; Per pietà, non ricercate, K420 ; Maurerische Trauermusik, K477 ; Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K550 / Mozart.