Britten conducts Britten. / Benjamin Britten.

Author/creator Britten, Benjamin composer, conductor.
Format Audio (CD)
Publication[London] : Decca, [2004]
Copyright Date℗2004
Description8 audio discs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects
Operas.

Other author/creatorFisher, Sylvia, 1910-1996, performer.
Other author/creatorPeters, Johanna, performer.
Other author/creatorCantelo, April, performer.
Other author/creatorNoble, John, 1931-2008, performer.
Other author/creatorEvans, Edgar, 1912-2007, performer.
Other author/creatorBrannigan, Owen, performer.
Other author/creatorWard, Joseph, 1932-2019 performer.
Other author/creatorPears, Peter, 1910-1986, performer.
Other author/creatorWilson, Catherine, 1936- performer.
Other author/creatorRex, Sheila, performer.
Other author/creatorAmit, Sheila, performer.
Other author/creatorPashley, Anne, 1937-2016, performer.
Other author/creatorTerry, Stephen, performer.
Other author/creatorLuxon, Benjamin performer.
Other author/creatorShirley-Quirk, John, performer.
Other author/creatorDouglas, Nigel, performer.
Other author/creatorHarper, Heather, performer.
Other author/creatorVyvyan, Jennifer, 1925-1974, performer.
Other author/creatorBaker, Janet, 1933- performer.
Other author/creatorBurgess, Russell, conductor.
Other author/creatorGlossop, Peter, 1928-2008, performer.
Other author/creatorLangdon, Michael, 1920-1991, performer.
Other author/creatorDrake, Bryan, 1925-2001, performer.
Other author/creatorKelly, David, 1923-1996 performer.
Other author/creatorDempsey, Gregory, performer.
Other author/creatorBowman, David (Singer), performer.
Other author/creatorTear, Robert, performer.
Other author/creatorBowman, Robert, 1925- performer.
Other author/creatorBryn-Jones, Delme, performer.
Other author/creatorGarrett, Eric, 1931-2009, performer.
Other author/creatorLumsden, Norman, performer.
Other author/creatorRogers, Nigel, 1935-2022, performer.
Other author/creatorMcCarthy, John, 1919-2009, conductor.
Other author/creatorWatson, Claire, performer.
Other author/creatorPease, James, 1916-1967, performer.
Other author/creatorElms, Lauris, performer.
Other author/creatorWatson, Jean (Contralto), performer.
Other author/creatorStudholme, Marion, performer.
Other author/creatorKells, Iris, performer.
Other author/creatorNilsson, Raymond, 1920- performer.
Other author/creatorLanigan, John, 1921-1996, performer.
Other author/creatorEvans, Geraint, 1922-1992 performer.
Other author/creatorNorman, Marcus (Singer), performer.
Other author/creatorRobinson, Douglas, conductor.
Other author/creatorBritten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Albert Herring.
Other author/creatorBritten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Billy Budd.
Other author/creatorBritten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Owen Wingrave.
Other author/creatorBritten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Peter Grimes.
Other author/creatorEnglish Chamber Orchestra, performer.
Other author/creatorWandsworth School. Boys' Choir, performer.
Other author/creatorAmbrosian Opera Chorus, performer.
Other author/creatorLondon Symphony Orchestra, performer.
Other author/creatorRoyal Opera House (London, England). Orchestra, performer.
Other author/creatorRoyal Opera House (London, England). Chorus, performer.
Uniform titleOperas. Selections
Contents Disc 1. Albert Herring: act one, act two (beginning) -- Disc 2. Albert Herring: act two (conclusion), act three -- Disc 3. Owen Wingrave: act one -- Disc 4. Owen Wingrave: act two ; Billy Budd: prologue, act one (beginning) -- Disc 5. Billy Budd: act one (conclusion) -- Disc 6. Billy Budd: act two, epilogue -- Disc 7. Peter Grimes: prologue, act one, act two (beginning) -- Disc 8. Peter Grimes: act two (conclusion), act three.
Contents Disc 1. Albert Herring. Act one. Flor-ence!... tell the midwife! (Lady Billows, Florence) (1:55) -- Doctor Jessop's midwife... mustn't touch illegitimates (Florence, Lady Billows) (2:16) -- I hope we're not too early, Florence? (Miss Wordsworth, Florence, Vicar, Mayor, Superintendent Budd) (2:30) -- Stuffy! Tobacco stink! (Lady Billows, Vicar, Miss Wordsworth, Mayor, Superintendent Budd) (2:42) -- Now then! Notebook, Florence! (Lady Billows) -- The first suggestion on my list is a charming local girl (Vicar, Florence, Lady Billows, Miss Wordsworth, Mayor, Superintendent Budd) (4:35) -- Is this all you can bring? Each single name reeking impurities (Lady Billows, Florence) (2:59) -- Beggin' your pardon (Superintendent Budd, Florence, Lady Billows, Vicar, Mayor, Miss Wordsworth) (6:12) -- Herring! Right! We'll have him! May King! (Lady Billows, Florence, Vicar, Miss Wordsworth, Mayor, Superintendent Budd) (3:03) -- Interlude (3:13) -- Bounce me high, bounce me low, bounce me up to Jericho! (Emmie, Cis, Harry) (2:30) -- Shop! Hi! Albert! (Sid, Albert) (2:17) -- Tickling a trout, poaching a hare, fighting wild geese is pretty good sport (Sid, Albert, Nancy) (3:01) -- Meet me at a quarter past eight (Sid, Nancy, Albert) (3:04) -- He's much too busy even to listen much less to care with Nancy there (Albert, Emmie) (3:35) -- Good morning, young man (Florence, Albert, Mrs Herring) (1:34) -- We bring great news to you (Lady Billows, Miss Wordsworth, Florence, Mayor, Vicar, Superintendent Budd, Mrs Herring, Albert, Emmie, Cis, Harry) (4:51) -- Act two. Isn't he here? (Florence, Nancy, Sid) (2:17) -- For three precious weeks we've been toiling, scraping (Florence, Nancy, Sid) (3:32) -- Quickly, quickly, come along! (Miss Wordsworth, Emmie, Cis, Harry, Nancy, Sid) (4:48) -- Here they are, dears! (Miss Wordsworth, Superintendent Budd, Mrs Herring, Mayor, Florence, Vicar, Lady Billows, Emmie, Cis, Harry, Sid, Nancy) (2:26) -- My flowers are few (Harry, Lady Billows, Miss Wordsworth, Emmie, Cis, Mrs Herring, Albert, Superintendent Budd, Sid, Nancy, Mayor, Florence, Vicar) (2:35).
Contents Disc 2. Albert Herring (cont'd). I'm full of happiness to be here in your midst on such a day as this (Lady Billows, Vicar, the rest) (3:30) -- As representing the local Council (Mayor, Vicar, the rest) (1:48) -- My heart leaps up with joy to see virtue and simplicity (Miss Wordsworth, Vicar) (1:58) -- Er-humph! Er-humph! I'm no great shakes as a speechifier (Superintendent Budd, Vicar, Mrs Herring, Florence, Miss Wordsworth, Mayor, Nancy, Sid, Lady Billows, Albert, Emmie, Cis, Harry) (2:39) -- Well tried, Albert! (Vicar, Florence, Albert, Mrs Herring, Harry, Emmie, Cis, Lady Billows, Miss Wordsworth, Superintendent Budd, Mayor, Nancy, Sid) (3:07) -- Interlude (6:54) -- Act three. Introduction (2:19) -- Is she asleep? (Emmie, Nancy, Cis, Mayor, Harry, Sid, Superintendent Budd) (3:32) -- I'm hungry, I'm tired, I'm sick of the sound of Albert! (Sid, Nancy, Superintendent Budd) (1:19) -- Give me a decent murder with a corpse! (Superintendent Budd, Harry) (1:09) -- Have you found him? (Mrs Herring, Superintendent Budd, Nancy, Mayor, Miss Wordsworth, Vicar, Harry) (4:42) -- Fools! Fools! Blundering fools! (Lady Billows, Nancy, Vicar, Miss Wordsworth, Florence, Emmie, Cis, Harry, Mrs Herring, Mayor, Superintendent Budd) (2:22) -- In the midst of life is death (All) (4:22) -- Albert...! (All, Albert) (0:40) -- I'm sorry about that (Albert, Lady Billows, Miss Wordsworth, Nancy, Florence, Mayor, Sid, Vicar, Superintendent Budd, Mrs Herring) (2:12) -- I can't remember everything (Albert, all) (6:10) -- Albert's come back to stay (Nancy, Sid, Emmie, Cis, Harry) (0:39).
Contents Disc 3. Owen Wingrave. Act one. Prelude (2:59) -- You've got your maps there? (Coyle, Lechmere, Owen) (12:36) -- At last it's out (Owen, Miss Wingrave, Coyle) (6:19) -- Your sherry, Mrs Coyle (Lechmere, Mrs Coyle, Coyle, Owen) (11:23) -- Oh, how unforeseen (Mrs Julian, Kate, Miss Wingrave, Owen) (10:24) -- Sirrah! How dare you! (Sir Philip Wingrave, Mrs Julian, Miss Wingrave, Kate) (4:02) -- Coyle, I wish I had not come (Mrs Coyle, Coyle, Owen, Lechmere) (7:00) -- May God bless the Queen, and this house (Sir Philip Wingrave, Mrs Coyle, Kate, Miss Wingrave, Lechmere, Coyle, Owen, Mrs Julian) (8:21).
Contents Disc 4. Owen Wingrave (cont'd). Act two. There was a boy, a Wingrave born... Trumpet blow, trumpet blow (Narrator, chorus, Owen, Coyle) (6:53) -- I envy you this fine old house (Lechmere, Mrs Julian, Mrs Coyle, Owen, Kate, Sir Philip, Coyle, Miss Wingrave) (2:36) -- "Paramore shall welcome woe!" (Coyle, Sir Philip, Miss Wingrave, Kate, Lechmere, Mrs Coyle, Mrs Julian, Owen) (7:03) -- "And with his friend young Lechmere played..." (Owen, Miss Wingrave, Mrs Coyle, Coyle) (4:37) -- Now you may save your scornful looks (Owen) (5:37) -- Ah, Owen, what shall I do? (Kate, Owen, Lechmere) (7:40) -- Is that you, Coyle? (Mrs Coyle, Coyle) (2:58) -- Come in ; It's me, Lechmere... ; Ah, Owen, Owen you've gone! (Coyle, Lechmere, Mrs Coyle, Kate, Mrs Julian, Miss Wingrave, Sir Philip, Narrator, chorus) (5:00) -- Billy Budd. Act one. I am an old man who has experienced much (Vere) (5:04) -- Pull, my bantams! Pull, my sparrow-legs!... Who did that? (First Mate, Second Mate, Bosun, Sailing Master, Midshipmen, Donald, Maintop, Novice, Squeak, seamen (6:59) -- Guard boat! Indomitable! (Voice (off), Maintop, Midshipmen, Sailing Master, First Lieutenant, Bosun, Ratcliffe, Claggart) (3:16) -- First man forward! (Claggart, Red Whiskers, First Lieutenant, Sailing Master, Jones) (2:25) -- Your name? Billy Budd, sir (Claggart, Billy, First Lieutenant, Sailing Master) (2:42) -- Billy Budd, king of the birds! (Billy, Sailing Master, First Lieutenant, Ratcliffe, seamen's voices) (2:34).
Contents Disc 5. Billy Budd. Act one (cont'd). I heard, your honour! (Claggart, Squeak) (3:37) -- Come along kid! Come along! Novice's friend, Novice, seamen) (3:37) -- Christ! the poor chap, the poor little runt! (Billy, Dansker, Red Whiskers, Donald) (1:25) -- What's that? What's those whistles? (Billy, Donald, Claggart, First Mate, Second Mate, Dansker) (1:14) -- Starry Vere we call him (Donald, Billy, Red Whiskers, Dansker, Bosun, seamen) (2:19) -- Boy! Yes, sir! (Vere, Boy) (3:45) -- Gentlemen, the King! (Vere, First Lieutenant, Sailing Master (5:31) -- Ay, at Spithead the men may have had their grievances (Vere) (1:05) -- We are, sir. Claggart is an able one... Land on the port bow, sir (First Lieutenant, Vere, Sailing Master, Ratcliffe, Sailor, seamen) (6:51) -- Blow her away. Blow her to Hilo (Seamen) (2:39) -- We're off to Samoa (Donald, Red Whiskers, Billy, Dansker, seamen) (3:37) -- Hi! You... a... a... (Billy, Dansker, Red Whiskers, Donald, Squeak, Claggart, Boy, seamen) (2:58) -- Over the water, over the ocean (A Sailor, Claggart, seamen) (6:48) -- Come here. Remember your promise (Claggart, Novice) (4:43) -- Billy!... Hist! Billy Budd! (Novice, Billy) (4:04) -- Dansker, old friend, glad to see you! (Billy, Dansker) (4:43).
Contents Disc 6. Billy Budd. Act two. I don't like the look of the mist (Vere, First Lieutenant) (2:16) -- With great regret I must disturb your honour (Claggart, Vere) (1:06) -- Deck ahoy! Enemy sail on starboard bow! (Maintop, Bosun, Sailing Master, First Lieutenant, Ratcliffe, Vere, seamen) (3:23) -- Who'll volunteer to board 'em in the smoke? (First Lieutenant, Donald, Red Whiskers, Billy, Dansker, Vere, Sailing Master, Maintop, Ratcliffe, seamen) (7:46) -- There you are again, Master-at-arms (Vere, Claggart, Boy) (4:48) -- O this cursèd mist! (Vere, First Lieutenant, Ratcliffe, Sailing Master) (4:14) -- Claggart, John Claggart, beware! I'm not so easily deceived (Vere, Billy) (3:31) -- Master-at-arms and foretopman, I speak to you both (Vere, Claggart, Billy) (3:22) -- God o' mercy! (Vere, Boy) (2:12) -- Gentlemen, William Budd here has killed the Master-at-Arms (Vere, First Lieutenant, Sailing Master, Ratcliffe (1:33) -- William Budd, you are accused by Captain Vere of striking your superior officer, John Claggart (First Lieutenant, Vere, Billy) (5:32) -- Poor fellow, who could save him? (First Lieutenant, Ratcliffe, Sailing Master, Vere) (4:22) -- I accept their verdict (Vere) (5:31) -- Look! Through the port comes the moon-shine astray! (Billy) (5:35) -- Here! Baby! (Dansker, Billy) (4:01) -- And farewell to thee, old Rights o' Man! (Billy) (4:35) -- Interlude (3:06) -- "According to the Articles of War..." (First Lieutenant, Billy, all) (1:50) -- Down all hands! And see that they go! (First Lieutenant, Sailing Master, Ratcliffe, Quarter-deck) (2:21) -- Epilogue. We committed his body to the deep (Vere) (4:39).
Contents Disc 7. Peter Grimes. Prologue. Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes, we are here to investigate (Hobson, Swallow, Peter) (1:27) -- You sailed your boat round the coast (Swallow, Peter, Mrs Sedley, spectators) (3:04) -- Peter Grimes, I here advise you! (Swallow, Hobson, Peter, chorus) (2:09) -- The truth... the pity... and the truth (Peter, Ellen) (1:54) -- Interlude I: On the beach (Dawn) (2:57) -- Act one. Oh! hang at open doors the net, the cork... Come in, gentlemen, come in! (Women and fishermen, Auntie, Boles, Balstrode, Rector, Nieces, Mrs Sedley, Keene, Swallow) (5:35) -- Hi! Give us a hand! Haul the boat!... Grimes, you won't need help from now (Peter, Boles, Balstrode, Keene, Auntie, Hobson) (3:19) -- I have to go from pub to pub, picking up parcels, standing about (Hobson, Ellen, Keene, chorus) (1:58) -- Let her among you without fault cast the first stone (Ellen, Hobson, Mrs Sedley, Keene) (3:08) -- Look, the storm come! (Balstrode, Keene, Boles, chorus) (2:41) -- And do you prefer the storm to Auntie's parlour and the rum? (Balstrode, Peter) (4:56) -- What harbour shelters peace, away from tidal waves (Peter) -- Interlude II: The storm (4:08) -- Past time to close! (Auntie, Mrs Sedley, Balstrode, Boles, Nieces) (4:21) -- We live and let live, and look we keep our hands to ourselves (Chorus, Balstrode) (1:58) -- Have you heard? The cliff is down by Grimes's hut (Keene, Auntie, Mrs Sedley, Balstrode, Nieces, chorus) (1:23) -- Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter, Nieces, Boles, Balstrode, Auntie, chorus) (3:40) -- Old Joe has gone fishing (Keene, Auntie, Peter, all) (2:28) -- The bridge is down, we half swam over (Hobson, Keene, Ellen, Boles, Auntie, Nieces, Peter) (1:39) -- Act two. Interlude III: Sunday morning by the beach (2:25) -- Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight (Ellen, Rector, chorus) (5:41) -- Let this be a holiday, full of peace and quietness (Ellen, Peter, chorus) (2:59) -- This unrelenting work, this grey unresting industry, what aim (Ellen, Peter, chorus) (4:40) -- Fool to let it come to this! (Auntie, Keene, Boles, Mrs Sedley, Balstrode) (2:18) -- What is it? What do you suppose? Grimes is at his exercise (Chorus, Auntie, Boles, Keene, Swallow, Nieces, Rector, Mrs Sedley, Balstrode) (1:03) -- People!... No! I will speak!... This thing concerns you all (Boles, Balstrode, Rector, Auntie, Ellen, chorus) (2:13).
Contents Disc 8. Peter Grimes (cont'd). We planned that their lives should have a new start (Ellen, Rector, Mrs Sedley, Boles, Keene, Swallow, Nieces, Auntie, Balstrode, Hobson, chorus) (2:27) -- Swallow! Shall we go and see Grime in his hut? (Rector, Swallow, Balstrode, Mrs Sedley, Nieces, Keene, Hobson, Boles, chorus) (0:43) -- Now is gossip put on trial (Mrs Sedley, Boles, Rector, Keene, Swallow, chorus) (2:12) -- From the gutter, why should we trouble at their ribaldries? (Nieces, Auntie, Ellen) (4:35) -- Interlude IV (Passacaglia) (5:27) -- Go there! Here's your sea boots! (Peter) (7:18) -- Now!... Now!... There's an odd procession here (Boles, Rector, Swallow, Keene & chorus off, Peter) (2:09) -- Peter Grimes! Nobody here? (Rector, Swallow) (3:07) -- Act three. Interlude V: Evening (4:19) -- Assign your prettiness to me (Swallow, Nieces) (2:36) -- Pah! Ahoy! (Swallow, Keene, Mrs Sedley) (2:49) -- Come along, Doctor! We're not wanted here, we oldsters... Is the boat in? (First Burgess, Rector, Mrs Sedley, Ellen, Balstrode, chorus) (3:18) -- Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness (Ellen, Balstrode) (5:09) -- Mr Swallow! Mr Swallow! (Mrs Sedley, Auntie, Swallow, Hobson) (2:00) -- Who holds himself apart, lets his pride rise (Chorus, Swallow, Hobson, Nieces, Mrs Sedley, Boles, Keene) (3:45) -- Interlude VI: Fog (2:36) -- Grimes! Grimes! (Chorus off, Peter) (4:56) -- Peter, we've come to take you home (Ellen, Peter, Bolstrode, chorus) (2:29) -- To those who pass the Borough (Chorus, Swallow, Auntie, Boles) (5:01).
General notePreviously released in 1964 (Albert Herring); 1968 (Billy Budd); 1971 (Owen Wingrave); and 1959 (Peter Grimes).
General noteCompact discs.
General noteSynopses (30 pages) inserted.
Performer In Albert Herring: Sylvia Fisher, Johanna Peters, April Cantelo, John Noble, Edgar Evans, Owen Brannigan, Joseph Ward, Peter Pears, Catherine Wilson, Sheila Rex, Sheila Amit, Anne Pashley, Stephen Terry, vocalists ; English Chamber Orchestra. In Owen Wingrave: Benjamin Luxon, John Shirley-Quirk, Nigel Douglas, Sylvia Fisher, Heather Harper, Jennifer Vyvyan, Janet Baker, Peter Pears, vocalists ; The Wandsworth School Boys' Choir ; Russell Burgess, choir master ; English Chamber Orchestra. In Billy Budd: Peter Glossop, Peter Pears, Michael Langdon, John Shirley-Quirk, Bryan Drake, David Kelly, Gregory Dempsey, David Bowman, Owen Brannigan, Robert Tear, Robert Bowman, Delme Bryn-Jones, Eric Garrett, Norman Lumsden, Nigel Rogers, Benjamin Luxon, vocalists ; The Wandsworth School Boys' Choir ; Russell Burgess, choir master ; Ambrosian Opera Chorus ; John McCarthy, chorus master ; London Symphony Orchestra. In Peter Grimes: Peter Pears, Claire Watson, James Pease, David Kelly, Owen Brannigan, Lauris Elms, Jean Watson, Marion Studholme, Iris Kells, Raymond Nilsson, John Lanigan, Geraint Evans, Marcus Norman ; orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; Douglas Robinson, chorus master.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded: 1964 April Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh (Albert Herring); 1967 December Kingsway Hall, London (Billy Budd); 1970 December Kingsway Hall, London (Owen Wingrave); 1958 December Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London (Peter Grimes).
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