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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66

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Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ)

London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten

Britten was writing personally for three muses who had all shared the wartime experience...His incandescent commitment to pacificism and horror at the failure of humanism blazes forth...As you... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012 More…
Release Date: 15th May 2006

Catalogue No: 4757511

Label: Decca

Series: Originals

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
Awards:
- Building a Library, November 2009, First Choice
- Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
- Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Choral Performance
- Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
- Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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British Music Collection - Britten & Walton

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Peter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Edith Sitwell (narrator)

Boyd Neel String Orchestra, English Opera Group Ensemble, Benjamin Britten, Anthony Collins

This disc includes one of the great highlights of the whole Britten discography, that first magical recording of the Serenade, with Pears in fresh, youthful voice and Dennis Brain's marvellous... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
Catalogue No: 4688012

Label: Decca

Series: British Music Collection

Length: 72 minutes
Awards:
- Building a Library, November 1999, Historic Choice
- Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Britten: Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra

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Steven Osborne (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov

Steven Osborne and Ilan Volkov launch into the Piano Concerto's opening 'Toccata' at a headlong pace… For all the remarkable velocity, the playing has weight and incisiveness too, and Osborne's... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 1st Sep 2008

Catalogue No: CDA67625

Label: Hyperion

Length: 71 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Concerto
- Building a Library, March 2018, Recommended Recording
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Britten: Violin Concerto & Piano Concerto

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Tasmin Little (violin), Howard Shelley (piano)

BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner

Shelley and Edward Gardner create something more mercurial [than Britten's own reading], Gardner conjuring that lithe, high-tension drama he has so successfully achieved with Britten's stage... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 29th Apr 2013

Catalogue No: CHAN10764

Label: Chandos

Length: 76 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Disc of the Month
- Building a Library, March 2018, Also recommended
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Legendary Recordings: Josef Vlach & Czech Chamber Orchestra

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Czech Chamber Orchestra, Josef Vlach
Release Date: 24th Jun 2016

Catalogue No: SU42032

Label: Supraphon

Series: Archiv

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
Awards:
- Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Britten: A Ceremony of Carols

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James O'Donnell (organ), Sioned Williams (harp)

Choir of Westminster Cathedral, David Hill

A Ceremony of Carols sets nine medieval and 16th-century poems between the 'Hodie' of the plainsong Vespers. The sole accompanying instrument is a harp, but given the right acoustic, sensitive... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
Catalogue No: CDA66220

Label: Hyperion

Length: 49 minutes
Awards:
- Building a Library, December 2004, Also Recommended
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Britten: The Turn of the Screw

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Ian Bostridge, Joan Rodgers, Julian Leang, Caroline Wise, Jane Henschel, Vivian Tierney

Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding

This performance captures the sense of dislocation essential to this chilling ghost story. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…
Catalogue No: 5455212

Label: Erato

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Awards:
- Building a Library, November 2013, First Choice
- Gramophone Magazine, October 2002, Editor's Choice
- Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Opera
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Britten: War Requiem

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Heather Harper (soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Martyn Hill (tenor)

Choristers of St Paul`s Cathedral, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Richard Hickox

Britten's War Requiem is the composer's most public statement of his pacifism.
The work is cast in six movements and calls for massive forces: full chorus, soprano soloist and full orchestra... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
Release Date: 1st Aug 1991

Catalogue No: CHAN8983

Label: Chandos

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Choral
- Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Engineering
- Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
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Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

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London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Richard Bonynge
Release Date: 1st Jan 1990

Catalogue No: 4256592

Label: Decca

Length: 62 minutes
Awards:
- Building a Library, December 2011, First Choice
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Britten: The Turn of the Screw

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Joan Rodgers (Governess), Ian Bostridge (Prologue/Peter Quint), Jane Henschel (Mrs Grose), Vivian Tierney (Miss Jessel), Julian Leang (Miles), Caroline Wise (Flora)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding

This performance captures the sense of dislocation essential to this chilling ghost story — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 8th Mar 2010

Catalogue No: 4563792

Label: Erato

Series: The Opera Series

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Awards:
- Building a Library, November 2013, First Choice
- Gramophone Magazine, October 2002, Editor's Choice
- Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Opera
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