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Britten: Song Cycles

Peter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Benjamin Britten (piano)

New Symphony Orchestra of London, Eugene Goossens

Britten: Song Cycles
Peter Pears has perhaps never done anything finer than his performance of Winter Words...[He] has a voice of unmistakeable individuality and one which he has made responsive to all demands on...

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Britten: Song Cycles

Peter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Benjamin Britten (piano)

New Symphony Orchestra of London, Eugene Goossens

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Peter Pears has perhaps never done anything finer than his performance of Winter Words...[He] has a voice of unmistakeable individuality and one which he has made responsive to all demands on...

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Vintage recordings of Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten (Winter Words and The Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) and the 1953 recording of the Serenade with Dennis Brain.

Newly re-mastered.

  • Release date: 1st Nov 2010
  • Label: Regis
  • Catalogue number: RRC1365
  • Length: 63 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31
Work length24:56
Prologue
Track length1:27
Pastorale
Track length3:39
Nocturne
Track length3:29
Elegy
Track length4:45
Dirge
Track length4:03
Hymn
Track length2:03
Sonnet
Track length3:57
Epilogue
Track length1:33
Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52
Work length21:07
At day-close in November
Track length1:44
Midnight on the Great Western - "The Journeying Boy"
Track length4:37
Wagtail and Baby 'A Satire'
Track length2:04
The Little Old Table
Track length1:29
The Choirmaster's Burial - "The Tenor Man's Story"
Track length3:52
Proud Songsters 'Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales'
Track length1:11
At the Railway Station, Upway 'The Convict and the Boy with the Violin'
Track length2:46
Before Life and After
Track length3:24
Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22
Work length17:17
Sonetto XVI. Sì come nella penna e nell' inchiostro
Track length2:04
Sonetto XXXI. A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia
Track length1:28
Sonetto XXX. Veggio co'bei vostri occhi un dolce lume
Track length3:25
Sonetto LV. Tu sa' ch'io so, signor mie, che tu sai
Track length1:54
Sonetto XXXVIII. Rendete a gli occhi miei
Track length1:59
Sonetto XXXII. S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna
Track length1:25
Sonetto XXIV. Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede
Track length5:02

Awards and reviews

Peter Pears has perhaps never done anything finer than his performance of Winter Words...[He] has a voice of unmistakeable individuality and one which he has made responsive to all demands on it. His legato, his florid passages, his soft high notes...his instinct for words and the phrase, all these give unique pleasure to the hearer...Britten's genius for accompaniment is well known; and the recording is of the very highest quality.
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