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The modern "Orpheus Brittanicus"

Title
The modern "Orpheus Brittanicus" [sound recording] / Benjamin Britten.
Author
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Publication
Hamburg, Germany : Quadromania, p2004.

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McPhee, Colin, 1900-1964.
Description
4 sound discs : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
Alternative Title
  • Works.
  • Orpheus Brittanicus
Subject
  • Operas > Excerpts
  • Songs (High voice) with piano
  • Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble
  • Orchestral music
  • Symphonies (String orchestra)
  • Choruses, Sacred (Children's voices) with harp
  • Carols
  • Piano music (Pianos (2))
  • Rondos (Pianos (2))
  • Mazurkas
  • Symphonies
Note
  • Quadromania: 222115-444 (additional no. on container: 222115).
  • All works by Benjamin Britten unless noted otherwise.
  • Compact discs.
  • Program notes inserted in container.
Event (note)
  • Recorded 1941-1947.
Contents
  • CD. 1. The rape of Lucretia : op. 37 : an opera in two acts (excerpts) (Peter Pears, Joan Cross, Owen Brannigan, Edmund Donleavy, Otokar Kraus, Kathleen Ferrier, Anna Pollak, Margaret Ritchie, vocalists ; English Opera Group Orchestra ; Reginald Goodall, conductor).
  • CD 2. Seven sonnets of Michelangelo (Peter Pears, tenor ; Benjamin Britten, piano) -- Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op. 31 (Peter Pears, tenor ; Dennnis Brain, horn ; Boyd Neel String Orchestra ; Benjamin Britten, conductor) -- Peter Grimes : op. 33. Four sea interludes (Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam ; Eduard van Beinum, conductor).
  • CD. 3. Simple symphony (Boyd Neel String Orchestra ; Boyd Neel, conductor) -- British folk songs. The ash grove ; The Sally Gardens ; Little Sir William ; Oliver Cromwell / arr. Britten (Peter Pears, tenor ; Benjamin Britten, piano) -- A ceremony of carols : op. 28 (Morrison Boys Choir, Maria korchinska, harp ; Ivor Sims, conductor) -- Music of Bali / [transcribed by Colin McPhee] (Benjamin Britten, Colin McPhee, pianos).
  • CD 4. Young person's guide to the orchestra (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra ; Malcolm Sargent, conductor) -- Introduction and rondo alla burlesca : op. 23 no. 1 (Clifford Curzon ; Benjamin Britten, pianos) -- Mazurka elegiaca : op. 23 no. 2 (Clifford Curzon ; Benjamin Britten, pianos) -- Sinfonia da requiem : op. 20 (New York Philharmonic Orchestra ; John Barbirolli, conductor).
LCCN
4011222221155
OCLC
  • ocn540909986
  • 540909986
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries