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Britten: The Little Sweep

Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Peter Pears (tenor), Owen Brannigan (bass) & Harold Lester (piano)

English Opera Group Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Benjamin Britten, George Malcolm

Britten: The Little Sweep

Britten: The Little Sweep

Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Peter Pears (tenor), Owen Brannigan (bass) & Harold Lester (piano)

English Opera Group Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Benjamin Britten, George Malcolm

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Two of Britten’s rarities, his children’s opera The Little Sweep and the Cantata Academica, have been unavailable for several years. The definitive recordings made with the English Opera Group and the London Symphony Orchestra are now available on one disc.

  • Release date: 13th Feb 2012
  • Label: Heritage
  • Catalogue number: HTGCD236
  • Length: 64 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Britten: The Little Sweep, Op. 45
Work length43:52
"Sweep! Sweep!"
Track length2:01
"Sweep This Chimney"
Track length1:59
The Little Sweep (Let's Make an Opera) Op. 45: "Now, Little White Boy!"
Track length4:03
"Pull the Rope Gently"
Track length1:42
"Is He Wounded?"
Track length1:29
"Sooty Tracks Upon the Sheet"
Track length2:24
"Run Poor Sweepboy"
Track length4:18
"The Kettles Are Singing"
Track length2:45
"O Why Do You Weep"
Track length3:07
Pantomime - "Ah! ..... Blackguards!"
Track length4:17
"Help! Help! She's Collapsed!"
Track length2:07
"The Owl, Wide-Winging"
Track length4:05
"Soon the Coach Will Carry You Away"
Track length2:28
"Morning Sammy"
Track length1:51
"Ready, Alfred?"
Track length2:51
Coaching Song: "The Horses Are Champing"
Track length2:25
Britten: Cantata Academica, Op. 62
Work length20:57
Part I: I. Bonorum summum omnium - II. Il quae bene beatequwe Viviendi
Track length2:56
Part I: III. At huis caelestis - IV. Maiorum imprimis virtus - V. Tum vero Aenease Sylvius
Track length3:24
Part I: VI. Et gubernacula mundi qui tenet - VII. ut ad longaeva tempora
Track length3:39
Part II: VIII. Docendi ac discendi aequitati
Track length3:31
Part II: IX Rhenana erga omnes urbs - X. ut iutissime Basilea audiat - XI. O cives Basilenses
Track length4:33
Part II: XII. Nos autem cuncti hoc festo die - XIII. vigeatque academia libera
Track length2:54
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