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Around Britten - works for solo cello by Benjamin Britten, John Tavener and Matthew Barley / Matthew Barley, cello

1 CD / Signum UK / 2013-02-07

Works: Benjamin Britten: Suite for solo cello no 3, Op. 87; Greensleeves, folksong arrangement for high voice & piano; Folksongs (7), Volume 1; The Holy Sonnets; Gloriana; Oliver Cromwell, for voice & piano...
Performers: Barley, Matthew

Mélodie Francaise - Songs by Fauré, Debussy; Hahn; Chausson / Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Stephane Degout, Bernard Kruysen [6 CDs]

6 CD / Naïve / 2012-10-30

Works: Gabriel Fauré: Nell, Op. 18 no 1; Songs (2) for voice & piano, Op. 27; Songs (2) for voice & piano, Op. 46; Songs (4) for voice & piano, Op. 51; Mélodies (5), Op. 58 "de Venise"; La bonne c...
Performers: Blumenthal, Daniel; Degout, Stéphane; Immerseel, Jos van; Kruysen, Bernard; Lee, Noël [Piano]; Lucas, Hélène; Manoff, Susan; Piau, Sandrine

This beautiful boxed set of French melodies gathers some of the most intriguing recordings from the Naïve Classique catalogue. This subtle and fascinating repertoire will...continue...

Essential Britten / Over 2 hours of Britten's greatest masterworks

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-10-09

Works: Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations, Op. 18; Simple Symphony for Strings, Op. 4; Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31; Concerto for Violin Op. 15; Saint Nicolas, Op. 42; A Ceremony of Carols, O...
Performers: Bostridge, Ian; Brightman, Sarah; Brown, Timothy; Carter, Roy [Oboe]; Clark, James [Tenor Vocal]; Drake, Julius [Piano]; Ellis, Osian; Godlee, Julian; Haendel, Ida; Harper, Heather; Lenehan, John [Pi...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Brown, Iona; Bedford, Steuart; Berglund, Paavo; Willcocks, David; Pesek, Libor; Whitfield, John; Tate, Jeffrey; Previn, Andre; Hickox, Richard; Rattle, Simon, Sir
Ensemble: ; Endymion Ensemble

Essential Classics is a series of 2-CD sets drawn from the catalogs of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics. Presenting the bestloved and most popular works...continue...

Silent Noon - a collection of British songs by Britten, Quilter, Purcell, Vaughan Williams et al. / Operababes, Janet Haney, piano

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2012-06-26

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: House of life; Roger Quilter: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2; Drink to me only with thine eyes; John Ireland: If there were dreams to sell; Benjamin B...
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Ensemble: OperaBabes

In 2001, two opera singers were discovered busking in London's Covent Garden and almost overnight were thrust into the global media spotlight, releasing two albums,...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall & Vega Music Studios (04/2011)....continue...

English Song Series Vol. 22 - Britten: Songs; Proverbs of William Blake; Tit for Tat; Folk Songs / Roderick Williams, baritone; Iain Burnside, piano

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-05-29

Works: Benjamin Britten: Songs and Proverbs of W. Blake, song cycle for baritone & piano, Op. 74; Tit for Tat; The Plough Boy, folksong for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 3); Folksongs (7), Volume 3; Tom B...
Performers: Burnside, Iain [Piano]; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]

Britten wrote his Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, Op. 74 for the German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in 1965. The singer admired the 'concentration and...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk (01/04/2011-01/06/2011)....continue...

The Horn in Song

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2012-01-17

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Christoph W. Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in E flat major, BWV 1031; Franz Schubert: An die Musik, D 547; Schwanengesang, D 957; Robert...
Performers: Bowermaster, Tod; Howsmon, James

Recording information: Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Clonick Hall, Oberlin, O (02/10/2011-02/12/2011)....continue...

Britten: Winter Words / Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo; Six Folk Songs Arrangements / Nicholas Phan, tenor; Myra Huang, piano

1 CD / Avie Records / 2011-09-13

Works: Benjamin Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52; Come you not from Newcastle?, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 3); Little Sir William, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 1); Folksongs (7), Volume 1; Sonn...
Performers: Huang, Myra; Phan, Nicholas

Winter Words is the solo debut release by American tenor Nicholas Phan. The recording was made in the wake of a recital tour in 2010...continue...
Recording information: Bicostal Music, Ossining, NY, USA....continue...

English Love: Songs of Passion, Pain & Pleasure / / Mark Stone, baritone; Stephen Barlow, piano

1 CD / Stone Records / 2011-08-09

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: House of life; Love bade me welcome, song for baritone, chorus (ad lib.) orchestra (Mystical Songs no 3); John Dowland: Awake sweet love, P 92; Come Again; Roger Quilter: Go, ...
Performers: Barlow, Stephen; Stone, Mark [Baritone Vocal]

Featuring the world premiere recording of Stephen Barlow's "If thou would'st ease thine heart," this disc includes 25 beautiful English love songs superbly performed by...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK (11/11/2008-11/13/2008)....continue...

Apres Un Reve / Soprano Sandrine Piau

1 CD / Naïve / 2011-05-31

Works: Richard Strauss: Die Nacht, Op. 10 no 3; Lieder (6), Op. 17; Lieder (4), Op. 27; Gabriel Fauré: Après un rêve, Op. 7 no 1; Clair de lune, Op. 46 no 2; Les berceaux, Op. 23 no 1; Felix ...
Performers: Manoff, Susan; Piau, Sandrine

The heir to Berlioz and Wagner, an extraordinary conductor, Richard Strauss was a dramatist of the orchestra. His operas conceived with Hofmannsthal and Zweig and...continue...
Recording information: MC2, Grenoble, France (06/2010)....continue...

An Irish Songbook / Ailish Tynan

1 CD / Signum UK / 2011-04-03

Works: Thomas Dunhill: Cloths of Heaven for voice & piano, Op. 30/3; Samuel Barber: Solitary Hotel, song for voice & piano (Despite and Still), Op. 41/4; Hermit Songs, Op. 29; The Desire for Hermitage, song...
Performers: Burnside, Iain [Piano]; Tynan, Ailish

Iain Burside and Ailish Tynan return to Signum with their second disc of Irish Songs and arrangements - this time from a range of different...continue...
Recording information: St Paul's Church, Deptford, London (04/22/2009-04/24/2009)....continue...

Songs for Ariel / James Bowman, Kenneth Weiss

1 CD / Satirino / 2009-09-01

Works: Anonymous, English: Salve Regina; John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; Henry Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z 628; Welcome to all the pleasures, Z 339 "Ode for St Cecilia's Day"; Don Q...
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Ducornet, Marc; Weiss, Kenneth

"Far from a retrospective recording, however, Songs for Ariel is a vibrant performance that amply demonstrates the continuing vitality and beauty of Bowman's voice." -...continue...

Britten Recital

1 CD / EtCetera Records / 2009-09-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Purcell Realizations from Harmonia Sacra; Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus; The Queen's Epicedium, for soprano or tenor & piano (Purcell Realization); Tit for Tat; A Ne...
Performers: Drake, Julius [Piano]; Ragin, Derek Lee

Britten: Folksong Arrangements [Hybrid SACD]

1 Super Audio CD / Melba Recordings Import / 2009-06-30

Works: Benjamin Britten: Folksongs (7), Volume 1; Little Sir William, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 1); The Bonny Earl o' Moray, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 1); The Trees They Grow So High (Be...
Performers: Davislim, Steve; Young, Simone

Benjamin Britten - The Collector's Edition

37 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-11-24

Works: Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20; Peter Grimes; Passacaglia, for orchestra, Op. 33b (from "Peter Grimes"); The Young person's guide to the orchestra; Canadian Carnival, for orchestra, Op...
Performers: Adey, John; Allen, Benjamin; Allen, Thomas; Alley, John [Piano]; Allison, Richard; Andrew Davis [Conductor/Organ]; Andsnes, Leif Ove; Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Bailey, Norman; Ballard, Jerem...
Conductors: Pesek, Libor; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Paavo, Järvi; Berglund, Paavo; Brown, Iona; Yuasa, Takuo; Hickox, Richard; Marriner, Sir Neville; Harding, Daniel; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Bedford, Steuart; Knu...
Ensemble: ; Endymion Ensemble

Benjamin Britten was without question one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. This 37-CD set features all of his most beloved works, giving...continue...

Roth: Romantic Residues, etc; Britten, Skempton, etc / Gilchrist, Nicholls, Martin

1 CD / Hyperion / 2008-08-12

Works: Alec Roth: From California, for voice, flute & harp; Romantic Residues, for voice & harp; Benjamin Britten: Folksongs (7), Volume 1; Folksongs (7), Volume 3; Welsh Traditional: Bugeilio'r gwenith gwy...
Performers: Gilchrist, James [Tenor Vocal]; Mart?n, Jaime; Nicholls, Alison

James Gilchrist is now considered "unsurpassed among lyric tenors in sweetness and technical security, and for his musical intelligence" (The Independent, UK). For his first...continue...

The English Songbook / Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2008-03-04

Works: Charles Villiers Stanford: La Belle Dame Sans Merci, ballad for voice & piano; Songs (50) of Old Ireland, for voice & piano, "My love's an arbutus"; Ivor Gurney: Elizabethan Songs (5) for voice & pia...
Performers: Bostridge, Ian; Drake, Julius [Piano]

"These 24 songs are, according to Bostridge, among 'the greatest and best-loved in the English tradition' and add up to a recital of infinite lyrical...continue...

Vagabond

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2005-05-24

Works: John Ireland: Sea fever; Bells of San Marie; The vagabond, for voice & piano; Roger Quilter: Shakespeare Songs (3) for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 6; Gerald Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring, song c...
Performers: Kimmorley, Sharolyn; Rhodes, Teddy Tahu

Australia's award-winning singing sensation Teddy Tahu Rhodes is back with another sublime album. Following the phenomenal success of The Voice, this CD features a collection...continue...

Britten: Folk Song Arrangements / Lott, Langridge, Johnson

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-03-22

Works: Benjamin Britten: Folksongs (7), Volume 1; Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements, for voice & piano; Folksong Arrangements, Vol. III "British Isles", for voice & piano; Folksong Arrangements, Vol. ...
Performers: Bonell, Carlos [Guitar]; Johnson, Graham [Piano]; Kampen, Christopher van; Langridge, Philip; Lott, Felicity [Soprano Vocal]

"For the complete folk-song arrangements, this is the only game in town, so it's enough to note the much-reduced price of the reissue from Collins,...continue...

Facets of Benjamin Britten

1 CD / Pearl / 2004-10-19

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 19 in F major, K 459; Quartet for Piano and Strings no 2 in E flat major, K 493; Benjamin Britten: Folksongs (7), Volume 1; Little Sir William, for voic...
Performers: Britten, Benjamin; Pears, Peter, Sir
Conductors: Britten, Benjamin;
Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet; English Chamber Orchestra

Britten's empathy with Mozart is already legendary, as pianist and accompanist he has been praised for many decades, and as composer there is little more...continue...

Gluck, Lully, Finzi, Britten, Warlock, et al / Janet Baker

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2003-05-20

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: O del mio dolce ardor; Jean-Baptiste Lully: Amadis, LWV 63; Benedetto Marcello: Il mio bel foco; Lennox Berkeley: Poems (5) of W. H. Auden, for high voice & piano, Op. 53; ...
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Parsons, Geoffrey

"There can be no more golden a legend than Janet Baker singing English song; and this latest BBC Legend - a live recital from the...continue...

Britten: Winter Words, etc / Graham and Anthony Johnson

1 CD / Hyperion / 2001-07-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Sonnets (7) of Michelangelo, for voice & piano, Op. 22; Canticle I; Folksongs (7), Volume 1; The Trees They Grow So High (Benjamin Britten); Little Sir William, for voice & piano (F...
Performers: Johnson, Graham [Piano]; Rolfe Johnson, Anthony [Tenor Vocal]

"Anthony Rolfe Johnson gives wonderful performances of two of Britten's finest song cycles and the ardent Canticle I, consistently beautiful in vocal quality, and almost...continue...

Delos Double - Arleen Auger - American Soprano

2 CD / Delos / 2000-01-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Giulio Cesare; Atalanta; Giulio Cesare, HWV 17; Rinaldo; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 209, "Non sa che sia dolore" BWV 209; Bist du bei mir, aria arranged f...
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Baldwin, Dalton
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard; Parisot, Aldo

This generous 2-for-1 package not only features the very well-received discs of Arleen Auger on Delos, but also the lesser-known Bachianas No. 5 with the...continue...

Love Songs / Arleen Auger, Dalton Baldwin

1 CD / Delos / 1988-01-01

Works: Aaron Copland: Pastorale, song for voice & piano; Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as "Poems (8) of Emil; Fernando J. Obradors: Canciones Clásicas...
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Baldwin, Dalton