Robert Tear
Born: 8th March 1939, Barry, Wales
Died: 29th March 2011, London, England
Nationality: Welsh
Robert Tear was born in Barry, Glamorgan in 1939 and studied at King's College Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar. He made his operatic debut in 1963 as the Male Chorus in Lucretia, thus beginning a long association with the music of Benjamin Britten: having sung small roles (such as the Novice in Billy Budd and Horace Adams in Peter Grimes) under the composer and opposite Peter Pears, he later inherited the Pears mantle, winning particular acclaim as Aschenbach, Quint and Captain Vere and in the Serenade and Nocturne. A renowned Handelian and Evangelist, his wide repertoire also encompassed many later oratorios (he was an especially eloquent Gerontius) as well as Mozart, bel canto and Wagner and much contemporary music: he created the role of Dov in Tippett's The Knot Garden and also worked closely with Birtwistle and Henze. His death was announced on 29th March 2011.
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Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor) & Stephen Roberts (baritone) London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Engineering
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BBC Legends, Volume 3
Sena Jurinac (soloist), Christa Ludwig (soloist), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), John Mitchinson (soloist), Heather Harper (soloist), Peter Pears (tenor), Alfreda Hodgson (soloist), John Shirley-Quirk (soloist), Donald Mitchell, Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Marianne Häggander (soloist), Robert Tear (soloist), Gwynne Howell (soloist), Shura Cherkassky (piano), Rudolf Serkin (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Henryk Szeryng (violin), José Luis Garcia, Emil Gilels (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, The Men’s Voices of the BBC Northern Singers, Aldeburgh Festival Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Malcolm Sargent, André Cluytens, Pierre Monteux, Wilhelm Kempff, Leopold Stokowski, Jascha Horenstein, Benjamin Britten, Klaus Tennstedt, Sir Georg Solti, Eugen Jochum, Evgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
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John Carol Case (baritone), Robert Tear (tenor), Neil Jenkins (tenor) & Howard Ferguson (piano)
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Special offer. Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
Lillian Watson (Vixen Sharp-Ears), Thomas Allen (Forester), Nicholas Folwell (Harašta), Diana Montague (Fox), Robert Tear (Mosquito/Schoolmaster), Gillian Knight (Forester's Wife/Owl), Gwynne Howell (Priest/Badger); Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Simon Rattle
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