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- Original Release Date: 8 Jun 1993
- Format - Music: MP3
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| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Prologue | Barry Tuckwell | 1:27 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 2. Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Pastoral - The Day's Grown Old | Benjamin Britten | 3:37 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 3. Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Nocturne - The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls | Sir Peter Pears | 3:21 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 4. Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Elegy - O Rose, Thou Art Sick | London Symphony Orchestra | 4:04 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 5. Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Dirge - This Ae Night | Sir Peter Pears | 3:49 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 6. Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Hymn - Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair | London Symphony Orchestra | 2:02 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 7. Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Sonnet - O Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight | Barry Tuckwell | 4:12 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 8. Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Epilogue | Barry Tuckwell | 1:33 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 9. Les Illuminations, Op.18 - I. Fanfare | English Chamber Orchestra | 1:54 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 10. Les Illuminations, Op.18 - II. Villes | English Chamber Orchestra | 2:32 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 11. Les Illuminations, Op.18 - IIIa. Phrase | Sir Peter Pears | 0:57 | £0.39 | ||
| Play | 12. Les Illuminations, Op.18 - IIIb. Antique | Benjamin Britten | 2:10 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 13. Les Illuminations, Op.18 - IV. Royauté | Benjamin Britten | 1:37 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 14. Les Illuminations, Op.18 - V. Marine | Benjamin Britten | 1:02 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 15. Les Illuminations, Op.18 - VI. Interlude | English Chamber Orchestra | 2:21 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 16. Les Illuminations, Op.18 - VII. Being beauteous | Sir Peter Pears | 4:04 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 17. Les Illuminations, Op.18 - VIII. Parade | Sir Peter Pears | 2:48 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 18. Les Illuminations, Op.18 - IX. Départ | Benjamin Britten | 2:42 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 19. Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60 - 1. On a poet's lips I slept | London Symphony Orchestra | 3:26 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 20. Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60 - 2. Below the thunders of the upper deep | Osian Ellis | 3:18 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 21. Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60 - 3. Encintured with a twine of leaves | Alexander Murray | 2:12 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 22. Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60 - 4. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting | Sir Peter Pears | 2:30 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 23. Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60 - 5. But that night when on my bed I lay | London Symphony Orchestra | 3:02 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 24. Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60 - 6. She sleeps on soft, last breaths | London Symphony Orchestra | 4:30 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 25. Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60 - 7. What is more gentle than a wind in summer? | Roger Lord | 3:28 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 26. Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings, Op.60 - 8. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see | Denis Blyth | 4:01 | £0.79 |
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a must have record!
Firstly, the three pieces here - if you don't know them - are essential and central masterpieces of Britten's and even alone they could stand to declare him to be one of the greatest (if not the greatest) 20th century composer (but of course he wrote many other masterpieces as well). Song cycles made up of settings of great poetry from earlier ages play an especially important part in his output. Through his settings we hear great poetry through his ears and are further educated in their beauty and power to move. The Serenade is perhaps the most popular and well-known of the three and is perhaps the greatest piece in the solo horn repertoire. It is extraordinarily powerful and still sounds thoroughly contemporary as well as being entirely approachable, memorable, hum-able .. . Les Illuminations - settings of Rimbaud - is equally striking: it is exhilerating and astingent and ... fresh. The Nocturne is less famous and perhaps the least of the three but it is full of marvelous things and the sound world of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the opera he was working on at the time of its composition.
The performances are definitive - thrilling, beautiful, affecting - with Peter Pears in fine voice (and what a wonderful tenor he was!) and Barry Tuckwell's wonderful and never bettered account of the horn part amongst other delights. Britten was a very notable conductor and a brilliant exponent of his own work - so brilliant, one suspects, that conductors might fear to follow him. The sound is excellent. If you only buy one Britten disk make it this one!
Firstly, the three pieces here - if you don't know them - are essential and central masterpieces of Britten's and even alone they could stand to declare him to be one of the greatest (if not the greatest) 20th century composer (but of course he wrote many other masterpieces as well). Song cycles made up of settings of great poetry from earlier ages play an especially important part in his output. Through his settings we hear great poetry through his ears and are further educated in their beauty and power to move. The Serenade is perhaps the most popular and well-known of the three and is perhaps the greatest piece in the solo horn repertoire. It is extraordinarily powerful and still sounds thoroughly contemporary as well as being entirely approachable, memorable, hum-able .. . Les Illuminations - settings of Rimbaud - is equally striking: it is exhilerating and astingent and ... fresh. The Nocturne is less famous and perhaps the least of the three but it is full of marvelous things and the sound world of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the opera he was working on at the time of its composition.
The performances are definitive - thrilling, beautiful, affecting - with Peter Pears in fine voice (and what a wonderful tenor he was!) and Barry Tuckwell's wonderful and never bettered account of the horn part amongst other delights. Britten was a very notable conductor and a brilliant exponent of his own work - so brilliant, one suspects, that conductors might fear to follow him. The sound is excellent. If you only buy one Britten disk make it this one!
11 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A wonderful cd, specially for the excellent intervencion of Peter Pears in a great artistic and vocal state. Pears was a tenor without a magnificence voice but for this repertoire his refined manners and musicallity are in common sense with the the Britten works, and not properly with the vocal line ,specially designed for him, than with his spirit. Pears and Brtitten, had been a good partneships with this too.Perhaps Pears sings more brilliant than Brittten conducts. One cd that I have no doubt to recommend. The recording was made around 50 years ago, but we can understand everithing.
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