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Decca - Hi-Res Downloads at MP3 Prices

Until 12th June we are offering all Decca downloads at MP3 prices.

Please note that this offer excludes new releases from 2024, and MP3 prices are not discounted.

Decca - Hi-Res Downloads at MP3 Prices, Benjamin Britten (conductor)

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  • This release includes a digital booklet

  • Blackburn, Shirley-Quirk, Drake, Pears & Webb

    English Opera Group, Benjamin Britten

    Curlew River captured completely the composer's fascination with the Japanese Noh play on which it was based. The recording, produced by John Culshaw, was made in Orford Church, and the atmosphere... More…

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  • Peter Pears (Albert), Sylvia Fisher (Lady Billows), Sheila Rex (Mum), John Noble (Mr Gedge), Catherine Wilson (Nancy), Joseph Ward (Sid), Johanna Peters (Florence Pike), Edgar Evans (Mr Upfold), April Cantelo (Miss Wordsworth), Owen Brannigan (Budd), Sheila Amit (Emmie), Anne Pashley (Cis), Stephen...

    Having shown us the grim and nasty side of Aldeburgh life at the beginning of the 19th century in Peter Grimes, Britten had fun with its parochial aspects at the end of the century in his comic... More…

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  • Janet Baker (Lucretia), Peter Pears (Male Chorus), Heather Harper (Female Chorus), Benjamin Luxon (Tarquinius), Bryan Drake (Junius), John Shirley-Quirk (Collatinus), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Bianca), Jenny Hill (Lucia)

    English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford

    two outstanding performances by Dame Janet Baker, recorded at the peak of her career...Luxon makes the selfish Tarquinius into a living character...The seductive beauty of the writing - Britten... More…

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  • Peter Pears (Prologue/Quint), Jennifer Vyvyan (Governess), Joan Cross (Mrs Grose), Olive Dyer (Flora), David Hemmings (Miles), Arda Mandikian (Miss Jessel)

    English Opera Group, Benjamin Britten

    As Sir Colin Davis has shown on Philips, there's room for an alternative interpretation of this remarkable work, but this superb first recording will remain as documentary-historical evidence... More…

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  • Elizabeth Harwood (Tytania), Alfred Deller (Oberon), Peter Pears (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius), Heather Harper (Helena), Josephine Veasey (Hermia), John Shirley-Quirk (Theseus), Helen Watts (Hippolyta), Owen Brannigan (Bottom), Norman Lumsden (Quince)

    London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin...

    It hardly needs saying that Britten's direction of his piece is superlative...In this Dream, Britten combines the sense of atmosphere and beauty of tone...And it is an enthralling experience. More…

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  • Peter Pears (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Bryan Drake (baritone), Robert Tear (tenor)

    English Opera Group Chorus, English Opera Group, Benjamin Britten

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  • Complete Decca Recordings

    Peter Pears (Evangelist), Heather Harper (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor), Gwynne Howell (Jesus), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Helen Watts (contralto), Peter Pears (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Jennifer Vyvyan, Mary Wells, Norma Burrowes, Charles Brett, Ian Partridge,...

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  • Peter Leeming (baritone), Peter Pears (tenor), Robert Alder (singer), Bryan Drake (baritone), Paull Boucher (singer), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), James Newby (treble), Robert Tear (tenor), Stephen Price (singer), Stafford Dean (bass (vocal)), Christopher Taylor (singer)

    English Opera Group...

    No digital booklet included