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Unknown Britten / Benjamin Britten.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
- Series:
- Naxos Music Library.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- 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.
- Downloadable audio file.
- Musical settings.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file)
- Place of Publication:
- London : NMC Recordings, [2009]
- Language Note:
- Vocal works sung in French.
- System Details:
- 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).
- Description based on hard copy version record.
- 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.
- Other Format:
- Source record: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Selections. Unknown Britten.
- OCLC:
- 827336642
- Publisher Number:
- NMCD140 NMC Recordings
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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