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Benjamin Britten conducts Benjamin Britten.
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View online- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, composer, conductor.
- Series:
- Historic (SWR Music (Sound recording label))
- Classical music library
- Historic
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Chaconnes (String orchestra).
- Suites (Orchestra).
- Suites (String orchestra)--Excerpts.
- Suites (String orchestra).
- Symphonies.
- Variations (String orchestra).
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Excerpts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on original container: Historical recordings, 1956
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Hänssler Classic, 2010.
- Language Note:
- 1st work sung in English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Contents:
- Symphonic suite = Sinfonische Suite "Gloriana," op. 53a (25:08)
- Sinfonia da requiem, op. 20 (20:07)
- Variations on an Elizabethan theme = Variationen über ein Elisabethanisches Thema (1953) (15:15): Thema, Sellinger's round / William Byrd ; Variation 1 / Arthur Oldham ; Variation 2, A lament / Michael Tippett ; Variation 3 / Lennox Berkeley ; Variation 4, Quick and gay / Benjamin Britten ; Variation 5, Nocturne / Humphrey Searle ; Variation 6, Finale / William Walton
- Chaconne aus der Oper King Arthur : für Striecher und Cembalo F-Dur / Henry Purcell ; arr. Julian Herbage.
- Participant:
- SWR Sinfonieorchester ; Peter Pears, tenor (1st work) ; Benjamin Britten, conductor.
- Notes:
- Program notes in German and English ([6] p.) in original container.
- Recorded in 1956.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Classical music library). Available via World Wide Web.
- Contains:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Gloriana. Suite
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Sinfonia da requiem.
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. King Arthur. First music; arranged.
- Other Format:
- CD 94.213
- OCLC:
- 841414827
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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