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Peter Pears (Vere), Peter Glossop (Budd), Michael Langdon (Claggart), John Shirley-Quirk (Redburn), Robert Tear & Benjamin Luxon London Symphony Orchestra, Charles Mackerras This DVD is part of the Britten-Pears DVD Collection. This collection features four historically and musically significant films from the BBC archives of works and performances by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, one of the greatest English tenors and Britten’s long-term partner and artistic inspiration. “Basil Coleman… created massive, painstakingly authentic settings on a 1770s man-o'-war. …its fluency and shifting viewpoints are still striking today.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2008 ***** “Peter Pears patrician features, with he high forehead and aquiline nose, so perfectly suit Edward Fairfax Vere that this, of all roles, is the one with which is most inseparably identified. Opposite him are the burly Billy of Peter Glossop an the black-toned Claggart of Michael Langdon, heading a devoted and well cast company...” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 | 
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Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard van Allan English National Opera Chorus & Orchestra, David Atherton, directed by Tim Albery Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Thomas Hampson, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Eric Halfvarson Manchester Boys' Choir, Northern Voices, Hallé Choir & Orchestra, Kent Nagano | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Philip Langridge, Simon Keenlyside, John Tomlinson, Alan Opie, Matthew Best, Alan Ewing, Francis Egerton, Quentin Hayes, Clive Bayley, Mark Padmore London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Richard Hickox | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Britten - Billy Budd
Britten: | The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35 Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano) Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Benjamin Britten (piano) Billy Budd Peter Glossop, Peter Pears, Michael Langdon, John Shirley-Quirk, Bryan Drake, David Kelly, Gregory Dempsey, David Bowman, Owen Brannigan, Robert Tear Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten |
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| |  | Recorded Live in concert at the Barbican Hall, London - 7th & 9th December 2007
Nathan Gunn, Ian Bostridge, Gidon Saks, Neal Davies, Jonathan Lemalu & Matthew Rose London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Daniel Harding After the award-winning recording of Britten’s Turn of the Screw, released on Virgin Classics in 2002, Daniel Harding and Ian Bostridge meet again around Britten in his great masterpiece, Billy Budd. This new recording is a new asset to the label, which has planned a complete Britten opera cycle. The opera, in its definitive 2-act version, was recorded during the 2 concert performances at the Barbican Hall on 7th & 9th December 2007. As principal guest conductor, Daniel Harding conducts the London Symphony Orchestra. The all-male cast boasts, along with Ian Bostridge as Captain Vere, American baritone Nathan Gunn in the role of Billy Budd, and Israeli bass-baritone, Gidon Saks, portraying the fiendish Claggart. EMI artist Jonathan Lemalu also contributes to the cast. “Billy Budd is one of Britten’s greatest masterpieces, containing three of his major operatic roles. Set amid the claustrophobia and cruelties of a battleship in Nelson’s time, it shows the ruthless destruction of good-hearted able seaman Budd by sadistic master-at-arms Claggart, and the mental conflicts of intellectual but weak-willed Captain Vere, who is powerless to prevent it. The music is suitably gripping, by turns intense and exciting, and full of the insights and inspirations typical of its composer.” www.barbican.org.uk “Bostridge's voice, always smooth and luxuriant, is in its prime, with an extraordinary strength and flexibility of colour. And he's a storyteller and actor par excellence, with a massive emotional range” Evening Standard (following Barbican concert performances: 7th & 9th December 2007) “Bostridge portrays a solemn, neurotic and painfully rueful Captain Vere…His light, effete, officer-class tenor soars above his gruffer crew. The chorus sings the rolling 'heave away' with an infectiously queasy lilt, while Harding makes the LSO swell and recede like the Atlantic Ocean.” The Times, 13th September 2008 **** “When you can't see him, Ian Bostridge is one of the finest tenors we have…The great roles Britten wrote for Pears suit Bostridge's timbre perfectly…in this fine recording.” Anthony Holden, The Observer, 14th September 2008 “…this is a good, often exciting performance, but Hickox and especially Britten are hard acts to follow.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2008 **** |
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Neil Shicoff, Bo Skovhus, Eric Halfvarson, Robert Bork, Wolfgang Bankl, David Cale Johnson, John Dickie, Geert Smits Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Donald Runnicles | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | A Tribute To Benjamin BrittenSpecial Box Set with 7 Operas
Britten: | Peter Grimes (ENO 1994) Philip Langridge, Janice Cairns, Alan Opie,
Ann Howard, Andrew Green English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, David Atherton The Rape of Lucretia (ENO 1987) Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Kathryn Harries, Jean Rigby, Russell Smythe, Richard van Allan, Allan Opie,
Anne-Marie Owens, Cathryn Po English National Opera Orchestra, Lionel Friend Billy Budd (ENO 1988) Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard van Allan, Neil Howlett. English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, David Atherton Gloriana (ENO 1984) Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jean Rigby, Richard van Allan, Elizabeth Vaughan, Alan Opie English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Mark Elder The Turn of the Screw (Schwetzinger 1990) Helen Field, Menai Davies, Richard Greager, Machiko Obata Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Steuart Bedford Owen Wingrave (Film, 2001) Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge, Hilton Marlton, Josephine Barstow, Anne Dawson, Elizabeth Gale, Charlotte Hellekant, Martyn Hill Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano Death in Venice (Glyndebourne 1990) Robert Tear, Alan Opie, Michael Chance The Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Sinfonietta, Graeme Jenkins Let’s make an opera An Opera Feature Film by Petr Weigl. Felicity Palmer, Kate Flowers, Stephen Richardson, John Graham Hall, Lisa Milne, Liam Shena, Julia Campbell, Kevin Bloomer, Nigel Wall, Francesca Massey, Edward Yeo, Nettle & Markham (pianoduo) & Huw Ceredig (percussion) The Coull Quartet, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Symphony Youth Chorus, Simon Halsey |
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