CDs and DVDs featuring the conductor Benjamin Britten

CATALOGUE NR: 4256592
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 8.50 including VAT, or £ 7.23 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TRACKS: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell op.34. Peter Grimes op.33 - Interlude (Dawn). Interlude (Storm). Interlude (Sunday morning). Passacaglia. Interlude (Moonlight). Matinees musicales - ballet suite op.24. Soirees musicales - ballet suite op.9.
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra and National Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten and Richard Bonynge

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'sparkling'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4175092
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TRACKS: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell op.34. Simple Symphony - string orchestra op.4. Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge - string orchestra op.10.
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten

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CATALOGUE NR: BBCB80072
RECORD LABEL: BBC Legends
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 10.50 including VAT, or £ 8.94 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 07-Jun-1999

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Britten the performer
TRACKS: Overture: The Building of the House (Britten). Suite The Sea. Enter Spring (Bridge). A Fugal Concerto op.40/2. Egdon Heath op.47 (Holst).
ORCHESTRA: English Chamber Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst
ARTISTS: Richard Adeney   Peter Graeme    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 4-Jun-67 (Britten); 23-Jun-71(The Sea); 18-Jun-67 (Enter Spring); 15-Jun-69 (Fugal Concerto); 1-Jul-61 (Egdon Heath).

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CATALOGUE NR: 4256662
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TRACKS: The Rape of Lucretia op.37 (complete). Phaedra - mezzo-soprano and ensemble op.93.
ORCHESTRA: English Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Peter Pears   Heather Harper   Benjamin Luxon

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'the seductive beauty of the writing - Britten then at his peak - is caught splendidly, the melodies and tone-colours as ravishing as any he ever conceived'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4363942
RECORD LABEL: London
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 8.50 including VAT, or £ 7.23 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TRACKS: A Ceremony of Carols op.28. A Boy is Born op.3. Friday Afternoons op.7 - Begone, dull care. A Tragic Story. Cuckoo. A New Year Carol. I must be married on Sunday. There was a man of Newington. Fishing Song. The Useful Plough. Jazz-Man. here was a monkey. Old Abram Brown. Psalm 150 op.67.
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Copenhagen Boys Choir   Enid Simon   Downside School Boy's Choir   Purcell Singers

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CATALOGUE NR: 4256632
RECORD LABEL: London
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Midsummer Night's Dream - complete
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Alfred Deller   Peter Pears   Heather Harper   Robert Tear

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'Britten again proves himself an ideal interpreter of his own music and draws virtuoso playing from the LSO'

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CATALOGUE NR: GL100560
RECORD LABEL: Gala
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 8.99 including VAT, or £ 7.65 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Rape of Lucretia - complete
TRACKS: Bonus tracks: Billy Budd - highlights.
ORCHESTRA: English Opera Group Orchestra and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
CONDUCTOR: Reginald Goodall and Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Kathleen Ferrier   Peter Pears   Joan Cross   Theodor Uppman

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Recorded Amsterdam 2-Oct-1946 / London 1-Dec-1951

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CATALOGUE NR: 4143832
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 17-May-1999

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: War Requiem
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau   Galina Vishnevskaya   Peter Pears   Melos Ensemble

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 'This Britten recording, one which will never be superseded, remains one of the most magnetic performances of British msuic ever put on record.' Gramophone. Definitive recording of this 20th Century masterpiece now remastered and re-issue with a unique rehearsal sequence never available before. - Jul-1999 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: 222933
RECORD LABEL: Documents
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 11.75 including VAT, or £ 10.00 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Turn of the Screw - complete
ORCHESTRA: English Opera Group Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   Jennifer Vyvyan   David Hemmings   Joan Cross

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CATALOGUE NR: BBCL40462
RECORD LABEL: BBC Legends
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 10.50 including VAT, or £ 8.94 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 16-Oct-2000

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: War Requiem
ORCHESTRA: New Philharmonia Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Carlo Maria Giulini and Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Melos Ensemble   Wandsworth School Boys' Choir   Peter Pears   Hans Wilbrink

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 6-Apr-1969 Royal Albert Hall London - Feb-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jan-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'This 1969 live performance has not been bettered - it has great conviction: the drama and the tragedy are powerfully conveyed.' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: BBCB80142
RECORD LABEL: BBC Legends
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 10.50 including VAT, or £ 8.94 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 18-Oct-1999

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TRACKS: Our Hunting Fathers op.8. Who are these children? op.84. Canticle III: Still falls the rain op.55. Lachrymae op.48.
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   Dennis Brain   Margaret Major  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1961 / 1971 / 1956 / 1963 - Feb-2000 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: VAI1034
RECORD LABEL: VAI
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.99 including VAT, or £ 22.12 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 08-Sep-2003

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Billy Budd - complete
ORCHESTRA: Royal Opera House Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   Theodor Uppman   Friedrich Dalberg   Geraint Evans

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: World premiere performance 01-Dec-1951 - Penguin Guide 2 star

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CATALOGUE NR: NMCD030
RECORD LABEL: NMC
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 10.99 including VAT, or £ 9.35 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TRACKS: Les Illuminations op.18. Sinfonia da Requiem op.20. 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo op.22.
ORCHESTRA: CBS Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten and John Barbirolli
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   Benjamin Britten    

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CATALOGUE NR: 4688012
RECORD LABEL: Decca British Music
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 6.99 including VAT, or £ 5.95 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 14-May-2001

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings op.31 (Britten). Façade - an entertainment (Walton). 4 Folksongs (arr. Britten).
ORCHESTRA: Boyd Neel Orchestra and English Opera Group Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten and Anthony Collins
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   Dennis Brain   Edith Sitwell   Benjamin Britten

- Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4676822
RECORD LABEL: Decca Legends
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 11.99 including VAT, or £ 10.20 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 09-Apr-2001

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Peter Grimes - complete
ORCHESTRA: Royal Opera House Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   Claire Watson   Geraint Evans   Owen Brannigan

- Jul-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide Rosette star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4756020
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 8 CD Set
PRICE: £ 44.99 including VAT, or £ 38.29 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 10-May-2004

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Britten conducts Britten - Opera 1
TRACKS: Peter Grimes - complete. Billy Budd - complete. Albert Herring - complete. Owen Wingrave - complete.
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears      

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'an indispensable set'

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CATALOGUE NR: GEMMCD9177
RECORD LABEL: Pearl
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 9.49 including VAT, or £ 8.08 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo op.22 (Britten). Balinese Ceremonial Music - piano duet: 4 hands (McPhee). Folk Song Arrangements - The Salley Gardens. Little Sir William. The ash grove. Oliver Cromwell. Introduction and Rondo alla burlesca - 2 pianos op.23/1. Mazurka elegiaca - 2 pianos op.23/2. Serenade - tenor, horn and strings op.31.
ORCHESTRA: Boyd Neel String Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   Benjamin Britten   Dennis Brain   Clifford Curzon

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CATALOGUE NR: 4369902
RECORD LABEL: Decca World of Series
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 7.50 including VAT, or £ 6.38 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: World of Benjamin Britten
TRACKS: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell op.34. A Spring Symphony - soloists, chorus and orchestra op.44 - Spring, the sweet Spring. Noye's Fludde - Chester miracle play op.59 - Noye Noye take thou thy company; Sir heare are lions. Serenade - tenor, horn and strings op.31 - Nocturne: The splendour falls on castle walls. Billy Budd - opera: 4 acts op.50 - Interlude and Sea Shanties. A Ceremony of Carols - treble vv and harp op.28 - Adam lay i-bounden. A Hymn to the Virgin - chorus a cappella. War Requiem - soloists, choirs, organ and orchestras op.66. Peter Grimes - opera: prologue & 3 acts op.33 - Interlude. Folk Song Arrangements - 1v and piano - The plough boy; Early one morning.
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Opera House Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   Barry Tuckwell    

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4256722
RECORD LABEL: London
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Mar-1990

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Turn of the Screw - complete
ORCHESTRA: English Opera Group Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   David Hemmings   Joan Cross   Jennifer Vyvyan

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'though the recording is mono, the very dryness and the sharpness of focus give an extra intensity to the composer's own incomparable reading of his most compressed opera'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4218582
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 8.50 including VAT, or £ 7.23 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Curlew River - complete
ORCHESTRA: English Opera Group Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   John Shirley-Quirk   Harold Blackburn   Barbara Webb

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'the recording is outstanding even by Decca standards'

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