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Great Baritone Arias / Peter Mattei

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2011-04-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Le Nozze di Figaro; Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, K 584; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin; The Queen of Spades; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Charles G...
Performers: Mattei, Peter [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Renes, Lawrence

The Swedish baritone Peter Mattei has made a formidable reputation for himself performing at the most prestigious opera houses in the world: the Metropolitan, Teatro...continue...
Recording information: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden (2008-11-??&2009-03-??&2010-)....continue...

Britten: String Quartet No. 2; 3 Divertimenti; Miniature Suite; String Quartet in D

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2010-07-22

Works: Benjamin Britten: Quartet for Strings no 2 in C major, Op. 36; Divertimenti (3), for string quartet; Miniature Suite, for string quartet (juvenilia); Quartet for Strings in D major

Includes the world première recording of the Miniature Suite

The Emperor Quartet was established a decade ago by Martin Burgess, violin; Clare Hayes, violin; Fiona...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (03/2007)....continue...

Britten: Songs / Norman, Gould

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2008-06-06

Works: Benjamin Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52; Who are these Children?, Op. 84
Performers: Gould, Christopher; Norman, Daniel

This Britten recital combines two of the composer's major song cycles, 'Winter Words' (1953) and 'Who are these Children?' (1969). In them he explored themes...continue...

Britten, Doráti, Krenek: Oboe Music / Jahren, Westenholz

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2005-07-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano; Metamorphoses (6) after Ovid for Oboe solo, Op. 49; Insect Pieces; Antal Doráti: Pieces (5) for Oboe solo; Duo Concertante for Oboe an...
Performers: Jahren, Helen; Westenholz, Elisabeth

Helen Jahren is one of today's most prominent oboe soloists. On this disc she is offering the listener a selection of pieces written between 1935...continue...

The Lion in the Lute - British Guitar Music / Anders Miolin

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1998-12-20

Works: William Walton: Bagatelles (5) for Guitar; Alan Rawsthorne: Elegy for Guitar; Sir Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina for Guitar, Op. 52 no 1; Theme and Variations, Op. 77; Michael Tippett: The blue guitar; Be...
Performers: Miolin, Anders

Soliloquy - British Music for Solo Oboe / Gordon Hunt

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1998-02-05

Works: Benjamin Britten: Metamorphoses (6) after Ovid, for oboe solo, Op. 49; Paul Reade: Aspects of A Landscape; Gordon Jacob: Bagatelles (7) for oboe; Mary Chandler: Summer's Lease; Neil Saunders: Incanta...
Performers: Hunt, Gordon [Oboe]

A Bird Came Down the Walk / Nobuko Imai, Roland Pöntinen

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1997-06-20

Works: George Enescu: Concert Piece for Viola and Piano; Jean Sibelius: Rondo, for viola & piano in D minor, JS 162; Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae for Viola and Piano, Op. 48; Elegy for Viola solo; Toru Takem...
Performers: Imai, Nobuko; Pontinen, Roland

Bax, Bliss: Oboe Quintets; Britten / Hunt, Tale Quartet

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1997-05-14

Works: Benjamin Britten: Phantasy for Oboe and String Trio, Op. 2; Arnold Bax: Quintet for oboe & strings; Arthur Bliss: Quintet for oboe & string quartet, Op. 44, F. 21
Performers: Hunt, Gordon [Oboe]

"Lovely performances, most sensitively engineered, of three works inspired by the sublime artistry of Leon Goossens. Gordon Hunt, currently the Principal Oboe of the Philharmonia...continue...

The Singing Apes - Sandstrom, Britten, Holst, Weill, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1996-11-04

Works: Jan Sandström: The Singing Apes of Khao Yai; Benjamin Britten: Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard; Anonymous: Song of the Blacksmith; English Traditional: The Turtle Dove; Samuel Barber:...
Performers: Alin, Folke; Brolund, Walter; Persson, Olle; Pettersson, Jorgen; Ronnlund, Johnny
Conductors: Sund, Robert
Ensemble: Orphei Drängar; Uppsala Chamber Soloists

Britten: Young Person's Guide, etc; Pärt: Cantus / Järvi

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1994-09-23

Works: Benjamin Britten: The Young person's guide to the orchestra; Simple Symphony for Strings, Op. 4; Peter Grimes; Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, for string orchestra & bell
Performers: Truls Mork, Truls Otterbech
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

Britten: Suites for Cello Solo / Torleif Thedéen

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1994-03-25

Works: Benjamin Britten: Suite for solo cello no 1, Op. 72; Suite for solo cello no 2, Op. 80; Suite for solo cello no 3, Op. 87
Performers: Thedeen, Torleif

Britten: Sinfonietta, Serenade, etc / Vänskä, Tapiola Sinf

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1992-03-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Sinfonietta, for chamber orchestra, Op. 1; Serenade, for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31; Now sleeps the crimson petal, song for tenor, horn & strings; Nocturne, Op. 60
Performers: Lanzky-Otto, Ib; Prégardien, Christoph
Conductors: Vänskä, Osmo
Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

Penguin Guide
Christoph Prégardien has an ideally light and sweet tenor which, even in the high tessitura of the Lyke-Wake Dirge from the Serenade, shows no...continue...

Britten: Chamber Music / Helmerson, Holecek, etc

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1991-05-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury, for trumpets in multiples of 3; Suite for solo cello no 1, Op. 72; Nocturnal after John Dowland, for guitar, Op. 70; Songs from the Chinese, song cycle ...
Performers: Helmerson, Frans; Hjelm, Jan-Olav; Holecek, Josef; Nilsson, Bo; Schele, Maria; Tilly, Rolf

Britten: Les Illuminations, Lachrymae, etc / Csaba

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1900-01-11

Works: Benjamin Britten: Les illuminations, Op. 18; Lachrymae for Viola and Strings, Op. 48a; Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10
Performers: Eklof, Ulf; Forsberg, Ulf; Hogman, Christina; Holst, Daniel; Mannheimer, Annette; Sparf, Nils-Erik
Conductors: Csaba, Péter
Ensemble: New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra