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Unknown Britten / Benjamin Britten.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 08895
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891.
- Songs (High voice) with string orchestra.
- Song cycles.
- Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891--Musical settings.
- Rimbaud, Arthur.
- Rondos (Piano with string orchestra).
- Horns (4) with string orchestra.
- String orchestra music.
- Variations (Piano).
- Concertos (Clarinet).
- Genre:
- String orchestra music.
- Musical settings.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (78 min., 12 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- London : NMC Recordings, [2009]
- Language Note:
- Vocal works sung in French.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Les illuminations : for high voice and string orchestra (1939), with 3 additional songs orchestrated by Colin Matthews. Phrase ; Aube ; À une raison (31:29)
- Rondo concertante : 1930, for piano and strings (14:58)
- In memoriam Dennis Brain : 1958, for 4 horns and strings (3:53)
- Untitled fragment (1930) for strings (2:44)
- Variations (1965) for solo piano (6:26)
- Movements for a clarinet concerto (c1942) / realized by Colin Matthews (17:50).
- Participant:
- Sandrine Piau, soprano ; Rolf Hind, piano ; Michael Thompson, Richard Watkins, Peter Francomb, and Chris Griffiths, horns [members of Northern Sinfonia] ; Michael Collins, clarinet ; Northern Sinfonia ; Thomas Zehetmair, conductor.
- Notes:
- The 6th work realized by Colin Matthews from a short score draft of the first movement, Molto allegro, of an unfinished clarinet concerto, the Mazurka elegiaca for 2 pianos of 1941, and an unfinished orchestral sketch from the early 1940s, thought to be all that survives of a projected "Sonata for orchestra."
- Words of the 1st work by Arthur Rimbaud.
- Recorded in Hall One at the Sage Gateshead, Jan. 14-15, 2009 (Les Illuminations and related songs) and May 22-23, 2008 (all other works).
- Compact disc.
- Program notes by Philip Reed, in English with French translation, and text of the 1st work with English translation (30 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
- Contains:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Illuminations.
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Rondo concertante.
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. In memoriam Dennis Brain.
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Variations, piano (1965)
- Matthews, Colin. Movements for a clarinet concerto.
- OCLC:
- 460340676
- Publisher Number:
- 675754012663
- 5023363014021
- 00675754012663 gtin-14
- NMC D140 NMC Recordings
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