Browse: Britten (composer), Vocal (Chamber)
This page lists all recordings composed by Benjamin Britten (1913–76).
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British Music Collection - Britten & Walton RecommendedPeter 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... — More…
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Building a Library, November 1999, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The English Song Series Volume 22 - Benjamin Britten Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Williams brings a gentler, more intimate touch to what Fischer-Dieskau called their 'enigmatic smile': Blake's Tyger burns bright but with less fierce teeth, and there is more melancholy than... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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Shibe brings a lively charisma and a vibrant array of musical colour to the album, conjuring everything from 17th-century lute to Arabic oud across this wide-reaching programme. Sulayman’s performance... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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[Williams] has a mellow, refined tone, distinctively poetic delivery, and is keenly sensitive to the words. And with Allan’s lively support, he can unleash sufficient vigour in the emotional... — More…
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Britten: Works for Tenor & Orchestra RecommendedChristoph Prégardien (tenor), Ib Lanzky-Otto (horn)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Osmo Vänskä
Christoph Prégardien has an ideally light and sweet tenor which, even in the high tessitura of the Lyke-Wake Dirge from the Serenade, shows no strain whatsoever...he is totally in tune with the... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2011, First Choice
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[Bostridge] has surely done nothing finer than this immaculately recorded new release. He is superbly partnered by Antonio Pappano, whose balancing of textures and beauty of touch sometimes surpass... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th April 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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A Most Marvellous Party
with Noel Coward and Friends
Mary Bevan (soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor), Joseph Middleton (piano)
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Folk Stories
Songs by Beethoven, Britten & Mahler
Cora Burggraaf (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano), Liza Ferschtman (violin) & Floris Mijnders (cello)
The essence of folk song is outward simplicity: this disc is a wide-ranging selection of arrangements and originals, performed with artful directness. — More…
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Britten: Works for voice & string orchestra
Barbara Hannigan (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Jasper de Waal (horn)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson (artistic director)
Hannigan brings a fined-down intensity to the more hushed Rimbaud settings such as 'Being Beauteous', but elsewhere her tone tends to flutter under pressure...Gilchrist, by contrast, sounds at... — More…
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A Lad's Love
RecommendedBrian Giebler, Steven McGhee, Katie Hyun, Ben Russell, Jessica Meyer, Michael Katz, Reginald Mobley
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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