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Benjamin Britten in rehearsal and performance, with Peter Pears.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 295
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976--Interviews.
- Britten, Benjamin.
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
- Music rehearsals.
- Songs (High voice) with chamber orchestra.
- Songs (High voice) with lute.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Television specials.
- Performances.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Pleasantville, NY : VAI ; Toronto : CBC Home Video, [2004]
- System Details:
- DVD; region code 0, worldwide; format, 4:3; mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- video file
- DVD video
- Contents:
- Nocturne for tenor and small orchestra : rehearsal and performance (58:55)
- DVD Bonus: Two Elizabethan songs : Fine knacks for ladies / Dowland. What then is love but mourning / Rosseter ; Interview with Banjamin Britten from the program "The way it is" (15:41).
- Participant:
- Peter Pears, tenor (Nocturne and Elizabethan songs) ; Julian Bream, lute (Elizabethan songs) ; CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra (Nocturne) ; Benjamin Britten, conductor (Nocturne).
- Credits:
- Producer, George Robertson; lighting, Jim Ellis; audio, Nelson Smith (credits for the Nocturne; presented verbally at the close of the broadcast).
- Notes:
- Includes a rehearsal and performance of Britten's Nocturnes, a performance of two Elizabethan songs, and an interview with Britten
- Title from menu screen. Titles of bonus tracks (from main menu): Peter Pears with Julian Bream, lute ; Benjamin Britten interview : from the program "The Way It Is."
- Video Artists International in cooperation with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto. "Produced and Distributed by The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation" -- End of bonus tracks.
- Originally telecast Feb. 24, 1959 (Elizabethan songs); April 29, 1962 (Nocturne); and Jan. 26, 1968 (Interview).
- The rehearsal and performance of the Nocturne and the Elizabethan songs are in black and white; the interview is in color.
- Contains:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Nocturnes, tenor, orchestra, op. 60
- Dowland, John, 1563?-1626. Songs or ayres, 2nd book. Fine knacks for ladies, composer.
- Rosseter, Philip, 1567 or 1568-1623. Songs, lute, viol accompaniment. What then is love but mourning?
- OCLC:
- 56417211
- Publisher Number:
- 089948427797
- 4277 CBC Home Video
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