Steuart Bedford
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Special offer. Britten: Peter Grimes
RecommendedAlan Oke (Peter Grimes), Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford), David Kempster (Captain Balstrode), Gaynor Keeble (Auntie), Alexandra Hutton (First Niece), Charmian Bedford (Second Niece), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), Henry Waddington (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace...
[Bedford] has the sea-swell of the work deep in his bones...[Oke's] is a strong, ballasted performance, less purely plangent than many, but deeply moving in its simple strength and keen imagination...There's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Opera Award Winner
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Special offer. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Philip Langridge (Prologue/Quint), Felicity Lott (Governess), Sam Pay (Miles), Eileen Hulse (Flora), Phyllis Cannan (Mrs Grose), Nadine Secunde (Miss Jessel)
Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Steuart Bedford
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Special offer. Britten: Cello Symphony & Suite from Death in Venice
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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Special offer. Britten: Albert Herring
Christopher Gillett (Albert), Josephine Barstow (Lady Billows), Gerald Finley (Sid), Ann Taylor (Nancy), Felicity Palmer (Florence Pike), Robert Lloyd (Budd), Peter Savidge (Mr Gedge), Della Jones (Mum), Susan Gritton (Miss Wordsworth), Stuart Kale (Mr Upfold)
Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford
Vivid as Hickox's traversal of the score for Chandos may be, Bedford's is just that much more alert, crisper. With his long experience of Britten in the theatre, dating back to Death in Venice... —
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 7 - Benjamin Britten 1
RecommendedPhilip Langridge (tenor), Steuart Bedford (piano)
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also recommended
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Special offer. Britten: Piano Concerto, Overture to Paul Bunyan & Johnson over Jordan
RecommendedJoanna MacGregor (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
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Building a Library, March 2018, Also Recommended
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 6 - Gustav Holst
Susan Gritton (soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Louisa Fuller (violin), Steuart Bedford (piano)
The Four Songs for voice and violin, settings of medieval texts, were inspired by the composer hearing one of his pupils singing to herself and playing her violin in Thaxted Church.They're singularly... —
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Special offer. Wolf, H: Italienisches Liederbuch
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) & Steuart Bedford (piano)
no typical Italianisches Liederbuch, this. Neither Janet Baker nor John Shirley-Quirk was particularly known for this repertoire - though they've both so convincing that one can't guess why...I... —
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Twentieth Century Flute Concerti
Jennifer Stinton (flute)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
Stinton and Geoffrey Browne play with great sympathy...good, thoroughly expert performances of the popular Ibert Concerto and Berkeley's transcription of the Poulenc...an enjoyable disc —
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